Religion Quotes
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed (Religion Quotes)
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that’s it. We’re all people. We’re all equal (Religion Quotes)
The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes (Religion Quotes)
What I’m saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don’t condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical (Religion Quotes)
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion... faith in the power of words (Religion Quotes)
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited (Religion Quotes)
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined (Religion Quotes)
Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn’t the only way. And that their sacred text isn’t the only text and it must be taken literally (Religion Quotes)
I never volunteer to talk about God or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it (Religion Quotes)
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage (Religion Quotes)
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it (Religion Quotes)
Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood (Religion Quotes)
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man’s whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself (Religion Quotes)
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it (Religion Quotes)
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things (Religion Quotes)
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art (Religion Quotes)
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism (Religion Quotes)
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible (Religion Quotes)
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul (Religion Quotes)
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives (Religion Quotes)
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life (Religion Quotes)
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right (Religion Quotes)
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others (Religion Quotes)
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose (Religion Quotes)
Our civilization... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it (Religion Quotes)
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How’s that for a religion? (Religion Quotes)
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal (Religion Quotes)
Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion (Religion Quotes)
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion (Religion Quotes)
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables (Religion Quotes)