992 private quotes tagged religion

“First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.” — Barbara Walters

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“Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.” — ASAP Rocky

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“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.” — Bill Condon

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“For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.” — Kathie Lee Gifford

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“I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.” — Charley Pride

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“Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.” — Carol P. Christ

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“Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.” — Linda Chavez

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“Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.” — Sydney Schanberg

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“Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.” — Ernest Istook

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“We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.” — Jeff Miller

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“As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.” — Pierre Beaumarchais

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“I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.” — J. Michael Straczynski

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“Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.” — Pam Grier

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“Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.” — Felix Adler

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“Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.” — Gary Ross

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“It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.” — Pete Sampras

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“Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.” — William Robertson Smith

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“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.” — Clive Bell

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“I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.” — Anne McCaffrey

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“For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.” — Lionel Blue

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“Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.” — Ruth St. Denis

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“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.” — Margaret Mead

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“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.” — Paul Cezanne

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“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.” — John Henry Newman

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