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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
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- Nov 07, 2020