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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020