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Religion Quotes
"Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism)."
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"True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person."
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"Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock."
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"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."
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"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."
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"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
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"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."
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"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."
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"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
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"No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?"
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"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
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"And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."
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"God is universal," spluttered the priest.The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God.""And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit."Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls.""They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in."While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people."
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"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples."
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"I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church."
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"A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold."
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"When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe."
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"When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however."
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"I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside."
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"Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities."
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"The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith."
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"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
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"The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition."
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"Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment."
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"If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce of Christ. The death of the Son must be real. Father Martin assured me it was. But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste for death forever in His mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to the mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love. That was Father Martin's answer."
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"The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own."
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"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
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"The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development."
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"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
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"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers."
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