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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
- Goddess
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020