992 private quotes tagged religion

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.” — Francis Bacon

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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.” — William Blake

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“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.” — Alan Watts

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“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” — Edmund Burke

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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.” — Voltaire

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“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.” — Franz Liszt

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“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.” — Dalai Lama

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“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.” — Dalai Lama

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“I'm religiously opposed to religion.” — Victor Hugo

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“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” — Karl Marx

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“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” — Dalai Lama

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“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.” — Edmund Burke

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“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.” — T. S. Eliot

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