992 private quotes tagged religion

“When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.” — Kathie Lee Gifford

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“I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.” — Peter Jennings

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“The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.” — Tom T. Hall

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“Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?” — Charles de Secondat

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“It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.” — Prince

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“No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.” — Walter Pater

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“There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.” — ASAP Rocky

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“I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.” — Mary Douglas

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“How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?” — Andrew Sullivan

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“To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.” — Reese Witherspoon

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“I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.” — Jack Dee

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“Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.” — Studs Terkel

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“It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.” — Mary Douglas

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“The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.” — Carol P. Christ

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“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.” — Arthur Wellesley

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“I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.” — Ricardo Montalban

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“And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.” — Chaim Potok

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“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.” — Mary Douglas

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“I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.” — Criss Angel

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“Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.” — Mary Douglas

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“Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.” — Thomas More

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“I think there's a difference between God and religion.” — Sinead O'Connor

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“I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.” — Gael Garcia Bernal

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“One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.” — Ray Comfort

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“If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.” — Martin Amis

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