Famous Quotes: Religion

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
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Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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