992 private quotes tagged religion

“I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.” — James Lovelock

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“Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.” — Charles Lamb

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“If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'” — Tom Cruise

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“It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.” — Madeleine Albright

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“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.” — John Maynard Keynes

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“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins

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“Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.” — Larry Flynt

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“There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.” — Walter Scott

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“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.” — Brigham Young

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“Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.” — G. I. Gurdjieff

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“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.” — Hosea Ballou

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“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.” — Jon Meacham

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“I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.” — Brian Eno

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“If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.” — Brian Eno

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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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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” — Anais Nin

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“The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.” — Peter Ustinov

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“The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.” — Billy Sunday

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“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.” — Orson Pratt

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