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I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
– Pat Buckley
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
– Lucille Ball
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I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
– Brad Pitt
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I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
– Cat Stevens
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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
– Carol P. Christ
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I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
– Jerry B. Jenkins
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I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
– Mojo Nixon
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I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
– Gordon Brown
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I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
– Nick Rahall
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I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
– Rick Warren
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
– Malcolm X
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
– Paul Cezanne
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
– Vince Neil
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I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
– Peter Jennings
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
– Oriana Fallaci
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
– Conor Cruise O'Brien
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
– Naguib Mahfouz
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.
– William Ames
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Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
– Mitt Romney
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Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
– Frank Murphy
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Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
– Ron Lewis
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
– Doug Coupland
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
– Thomas Paine
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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
– William Robertson Smith
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
– Felix Adler
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
– George Santayana
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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.
– Peter Jennings
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
– Gertrude Stein
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Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
– Billy Graham
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
– Bear Grylls
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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
– Kenneth Scott Latourette
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
– Alfred de Vigny
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But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
– Tony Blair
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
– Madonna Ciccone
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Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
– Ernie Harwell
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Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
– Rupert Sheldrake
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
– Booker T. Washington
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As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
– Jon Meacham
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
– Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
– David Cronenberg
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And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
– Mitt Romney
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
– James Madison
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
– William Blum
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
– Maria Monk
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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
– James M. Baldwin
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
– Christopher Lasch
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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.
– Richard Dawkins
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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.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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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.
– Christopher Hitchens
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
– James Cook
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