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Religion Quotes


"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."


"If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth."


"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."


"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."


"There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost."


"For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?With all due respect.According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get."


"When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."


"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."


"Religion is love; in no case is it logic."


"It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets."


"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."


"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"


"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."



"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now."


"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."


"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."


"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."


"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."


"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true."


"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."


"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."


"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."


"I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside."


"It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide."


"I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality."


"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."


"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech."


"Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another."


"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees."


"But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist."


"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."


"Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses."


"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."


"What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion."


"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."


"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."
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