992 private quotes tagged religion

“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.” — Cliff Stearns

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“Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.” — Cliff Stearns

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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” — Meister Eckhart

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“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” — Lucille Ball

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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.” — John Keats

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“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.” — Colin Powell

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“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.” — Avicenna

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“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.” — Alice Walker

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“I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.” — Dave Davies

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“There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.” — Midge Ure

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“Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“There's no religion but sex and music.” — Sting

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“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.” — Neil Young

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“We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.” — Anthony Hopkins

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“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.” — Tony Campolo

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“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.” — George W. Bush

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“Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” — Guy de Maupassant

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“In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.” — George J. Mitchell

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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” — John Ruskin

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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.” — George Santayana

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“I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.” — Jermaine Jackson

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“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.” — Tony Blair

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