- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religions Quotes
For the many paths people take toward belief.
Reading widely across the world's major faiths reflects a genuine curiosity about how different traditions answer the same questions. That curiosity continues in our All Religions collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
- Civilized Nations
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
- Christian Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the Mohammedan of Seven Archangels, and our Christian religion has its Seven Spirits before the Throne.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
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- Nov 07, 2020