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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
- Demise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020