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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
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have always talked about politics and religion and money, and all those things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, we did.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel's Declaration of Independence grants all Israel's inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020