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- 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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.
- Hypocrite
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.
- Avengers
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- Nov 07, 2020
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most stupid religion is Islam.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
Islam is a dangerous religion.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020