992 private quotes tagged religion

“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.” — Tony Campolo

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“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” — Beatrix Potter

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“Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.” — Anthony Hopkins

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“I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.” — Jerry B. Jenkins

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“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.” — Neil Young

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“There's no religion but sex and music.” — Sting

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“In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.” — Anna Jameson

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“People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.” — Carrie-Anne Moss

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“Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.” — Midge Ure

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“Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James A. Michener

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“In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.” — Carol P. Christ

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“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.” — Dave Davies

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“I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.” — Mojo Nixon

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“Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.” — Alice Walker

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“Religion is induced insanity.” — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.” — Karen Armstrong

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“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.” — Avicenna

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“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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