992 private quotes tagged religion

“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.” — George Santayana

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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Love is my religion - I could die for it.” — John Keats

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“I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.” — Will Smith

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“There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.” — Patrick Wilson

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“Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?” — Mary Douglas

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“Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.” — William Robertson Smith

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“I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.” — Peter Jennings

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“I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.” — Mandy Moore

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“I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.” — Amber Tamblyn

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“I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.” — Barney Frank

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“Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.” — Peter Jennings

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“Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.” — Octavia Butler

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“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.” — King Hussein I

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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” — Honore de Balzac

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“It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.” — Dixie Lee Ray

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“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.” — Taslima Nasrin

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“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.” — Kirstie Alley

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“I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.” — Jonathan Davis

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“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.” — David Cronenberg

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“The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.” — Randall Terry

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“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” — Serj Tankian

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“If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.” — Madeleine Albright

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