992 private quotes tagged religion

“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.” — Yann Martel

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“There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.” — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.” — Frances Wright

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“There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.” — Tim Heidecker

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“Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.” — Jurgen Habermas

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“I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.” — Ram Dass

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“Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.” — Abbas Kiarostami

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“The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.” — Abel Ferrara

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“Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.” — Hal Holbrook

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“The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.” — Pope Shenouda III

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“The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.” — John Boyd Orr

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“I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.” — Dave Davies

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“The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.” — John Shelby Spong

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“What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.” — Geraldine Ferraro

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“The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.” — Emily Carr

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“It was part of your religion to hate the British.” — Rebecca Harding Davis

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“When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.” — Irvine Welsh

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“The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.” — Matthew Arnold

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“Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.” — Tony Wilson

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“Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.” — William Barclay

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“I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.” — Nikki Haley

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“It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.” — John Shelby Spong

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“I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.” — Dee Dee Ramone

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“No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.” — Felix Adler

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“In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.” — Rupert Sheldrake

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