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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
- Cloak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
- Nov 07, 2020
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020