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Religion Quotes
"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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"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."
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"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may."
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"When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe."
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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity."
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"I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to."
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"The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another."
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"In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality."
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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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"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
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"What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion."
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"Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you."
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"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."
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"Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly."
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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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"Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God."
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"Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God."
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"Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven."
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"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
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"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."
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"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
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"Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb."
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"Thou art a man, God is no more, Thy own humanity, Learn to adore."
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"Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation."
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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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"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
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"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."
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"True character arises from a deeper well than religion."
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"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
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