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Religion Quotes
"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."
"Christians, as messengers of God should bring restoration to this earth, become the people who can reform society and the country."
"In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."
"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion."
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
"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."
"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."
"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
"To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society."
"The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments."
"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."
"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion."
"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."
"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."
"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."
"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."
"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."
"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now."
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."
"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."
"Those who are called by God are predestined for victory."
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."
"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
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