992 private quotes tagged religion

“The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.” — Jim Ryun

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“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.” — John C. Ransom

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“Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.” — Ziggy Marley

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“I broke with my religion in college.” — Anne Rice

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“Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.” — Josh McDowell

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“We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.” — Eric Liu

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“I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.” — Luke Ford

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“I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.” — Donny Osmond

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“Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.” — Karen Armstrong

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“Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.” — Julian Casablancas

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“The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.” — Lionel Blue

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“Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.” — Lionel Blue

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“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.” — Frank Herbert

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“My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.” — Lionel Blue

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“We first fought the heathens 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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“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.” — Richard John Neuhaus

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“I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.” — Ian Mcewan

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“I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.” — Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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“Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.” — David Eagleman

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“Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.” — Ben Kingsley

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“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.” — Henri Bergson

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“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.” — Tom Brokaw

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“No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” — Noah Webster

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