992 private quotes tagged religion

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” — Charles Darwin

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“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.” — Mark Twain

Source:Mark Twain's Autobiography, p117

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“Religion is the opium of the masses.” — Karl Marx

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“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” — Richard Feynman

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“The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.” — George Carlin

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“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” — Nelson Mandela

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“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.” — Helen Keller

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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde

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“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.” — Martin Luther

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” — Galileo Galilei

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“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.” — Deepak Chopra

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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” — Buddha

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Winston: “Do you believe in God?”
Ray: “Never met him.”

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6hI423gcw&t=7s

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“There can be no truce between science and religion.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.” — Helen Keller

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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.” — Albert Camus

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“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.” — Alan Watts

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