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Religion Quotes
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
"This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed."
"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
"Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations."
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
"We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief."
"Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy."
"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."
"The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share."
"I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church."
"I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really."
"A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold."
"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
"I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning."
"A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification."
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
"When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe."
"Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."
"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."
"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."
"The world is my country, science is my religion."
"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
"Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand."
"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
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