Religion Quotes
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Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, and seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. they follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out (Religion Quotes)
We're the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated (Religion Quotes)
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? (Religion Quotes)
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief (Religion Quotes)
I don't want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics and incorporating of art with the Word of God (Religion Quotes)
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of Earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is. On the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious (Religion Quotes)
Virtue is the daughter of religion; repentance, her adopted child, - a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears! (Religion Quotes)
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious (Religion Quotes)
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power (Religion Quotes)
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on Earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion (Religion Quotes)
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth (Religion Quotes)
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion (Religion Quotes)
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all (Religion Quotes)
Women could take part in the processions, the songs, the dances, of old religion; no one fancied their delicacy was impaired by appearing in public for such a cause (Religion Quotes)
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy (Religion Quotes)
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths.... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things (Religion Quotes)
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions (Religion Quotes)
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question (Religion Quotes)
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works (Religion Quotes)
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion (Religion Quotes)
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect (Religion Quotes)
Religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another (Religion Quotes)
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion (Religion Quotes)
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning (Religion Quotes)
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe (Religion Quotes)
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family (Religion Quotes)
One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...Opium...Opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream (Religion Quotes)
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion (Religion Quotes)
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation (Religion Quotes)
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected (Religion Quotes)