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Religion Quotes
"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."
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"The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever."
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"There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin."
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"Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life."
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"We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus."
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"When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb."
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"If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate."
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"True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs."
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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
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"One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them."
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"The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
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"True character arises from a deeper well than religion."
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"I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to."
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"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it."
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"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible."
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"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."
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"Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment."
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"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
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"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."
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"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy."
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"You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions* in about two minutes."
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"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."
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"The only Christian work is good work well done."
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"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion."
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"Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I'll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I'll...I don't know. Donate Adrian's money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one."
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"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
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"To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book."
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"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
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