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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
– Kahlil Gibran
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
– Kahlil Gibran
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
– Ulysses S. Grant
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
– Frederick the Great
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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
– Andrew Greeley
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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
– Andrew Greeley
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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
– Andrew Greeley
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
– Galileo Galilei
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
– Edmond de Goncourt
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
– George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
– Thomas Hardy
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As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
– Stephen Harper
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
– William Hazlitt
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
– Heinrich Heine
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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Music is my religion.
– Jimi Hendrix
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
– O. Henry
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
– Patrick Henry
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
– Frank Herbert
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
– Frank Herbert
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
– Thomas Hobbes
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Toleration is the best religion.
– Victor Hugo
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I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
– Anjelica Huston
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Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
– King Hussein
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Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
– King Hussein
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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
– Hugh Hefner
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
– William Ralph Inge
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
– William Ralph Inge
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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
– Eugene Ionesco
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Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
– Douglas William Jerrold
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
– Abdul Kalam
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
– John Keats
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
– Helen Keller
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
– John Maynard Keynes
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
– Ben Kingsley
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
– Walter Koenig
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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.
– Louis Kronenberger
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
– The Dalai Lama
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
– The Dalai Lama
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Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
– The Dalai Lama
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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.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
– C. S. Lewis
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
– C. S. Lewis
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
– Abraham Lincoln
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
– Martin Luther
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
– Flora Lewis
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I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
– Bill Maher
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We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
– Bill Maher
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
– Karl Marx
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
– Margaret Mead
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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
– Lord Melbourne
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
– James A. Michener
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I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
– Ricardo Montalban
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I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
– Dwight L. Moody
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
– Dwight L. Moody
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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
– Michael Moore
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
– Hannah More
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
– John Viscount Morley
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
– Benito Mussolini
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
– Guy de Maupassant
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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
– Harvey Milk
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Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
– Daniel Morgan
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Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
– Gouverneur Morris
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
– Gary North
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
– Mohammed Naguib
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
– Taslima Nasrin
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There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
– Sean O'Casey
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
– Thomas Paine
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
– Blaise Pascal
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
– Wendell Phillips
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
– Beatrix Potter
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
– Ronald Reagan
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
– Tom Robbins
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
– John Ruskin
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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
– Ernestine Rose
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
– Henry David Thoreau
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
– Uma Thurman
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
– Paul Tillich
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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
– Desmond Tutu
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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
– Serj Tankian
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
– Kerry Thornley
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
– Paul Tournier
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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
– Paul Tournier
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
– Sojourner Truth
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