Famous Quotes: Religion

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
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'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.
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The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
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I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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