992 private quotes tagged religion

“I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.” — Sarah Silverman

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“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.” — Paul Valery

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“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.” — Frank Herbert

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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” — Galileo Galilei

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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.” — Joseph Campbell

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“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” — Francis of Assisi

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“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” — Jesus Christ

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“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” — Saint Augustine

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“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.” — Billy Graham

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“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” — Oswald Chambers

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“As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.” — Stephen Harper

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“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.” — Karl Barth

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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.” — Bill Maher

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“In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.” — Chinua Achebe

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“A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.” — B. R. Ambedkar

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“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.” — Noah Webster

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“Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?” — Michael Bloomberg

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“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.” — Carol P. Christ

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“There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.” — Dwight L. Moody

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