992 private quotes tagged religion

“Wonder is the basis of worship.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” — C. S. Lewis

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“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.” — Albert Einstein

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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.” — Anatole France

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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” — Voltaire

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“We are punished by our sins, not for them.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” — Bertrand Russell

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“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“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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“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” — Voltaire

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“Toleration is the best religion.” — Victor Hugo

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