- Nov 07, 2020
Religion Quotes
Belief looked at from every angle.
Some of these come from personal family history with church and faith, others take a harder look at how religion gets used or misused. For quotes on trust and conviction, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a programme in Kannur, I was asked who I wanted to be in my next birth. I said I don't believe in rebirth but if we should imagine it, I wished to be born in a world without religion or politicians.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a mental break-down, where I've grappled with my own sense of religion, but I've definitely had my heart broken and fancied people I probably shouldn't have fancied and all that stuff.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
- African Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020