992 private quotes tagged religion

“I don't think you need religion.” — Terry Jones

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“I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.” — Jennifer Carpenter

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“The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.” — John Paul Stevens

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“The search for religion is the starting point of thought.” — Xu Zhimo

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“I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.” — Hunter Parrish

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“I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.” — Giovanni Ribisi

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“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?” — Abu Bakar Bashir

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“Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.” — Kit Williams

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“Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.” — James Kent

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“I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.” — Sheryl Lee

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“When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.” — Daniel Bell

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“Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.” — Paul Bert

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“Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon

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“I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.” — Mary Augusta Ward

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“The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.” — Robert Rainy

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“So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.” — Pat Boone

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“Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.” — Frederick II

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“I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.” — Tom Perrotta

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“Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.” — Alfred Russel Wallace

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“I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.” — Sela Ward

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“And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon

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“They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.” — Larry Harvey

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“For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.” — Lactantius

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“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.” — Tom Perrotta

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