992 private quotes tagged religion

“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.” — Thomas Paine

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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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“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” — Thomas Paine

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“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.” — Henry Cabot Lodge

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

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

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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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“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 an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” — Sigmund Freud

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

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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” — Richard Dawkins

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

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