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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘religion’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.” -Thomas Szasz
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“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I can’t understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that’s not religion, that’s not helping humanity, that’s organizing an army to defeat somebody.” -Mojo Nixon
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“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“The humanists’ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.” -David Bowie
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“But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.” -Ernest Holmes
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.” -William Blake
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“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.” -Francis Bacon
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“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.” -Honore de Balzac
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“The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.” -Fred Allen
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“We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.” -Theodore C. Sorensen
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“I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.” -Howard Stern
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“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.” -Doug Coupland
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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” -John Ruskin
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“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.” -Richard M. Nixon
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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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“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.” -Lord Byron
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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!” -Blaise Pascal
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“It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?” -Dwight L. Moody
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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” -Edmund Burke
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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” -T. S. Eliot
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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 day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” -Orson Welles
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“It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.” -Ramakrishna
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“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.” -Epictetus
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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” -Thomas Paine
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“Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.” -Billy Graham
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“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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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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“I think it’s been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.” -Hillary Clinton
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“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” -Booker T. Washington
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“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” -Alexander Hamilton
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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 three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” -Karl Marx
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“Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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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“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.” -Patrick Henry
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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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“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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“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.” -Scott Adams
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“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” -George Orwell
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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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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.” -H. L. Mencken
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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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“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.” -Margaret Mead
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“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.” -Anthony de Mello
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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” -Carl Sagan
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“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.” -Bonnie Raitt
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“There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.” -Mitt Romney
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“No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.” -Abdul Kalam
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“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” -Martin Luther
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“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.” -Malcolm X
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” -Aldous Huxley
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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“I don’t necessarily believe in organized religion.” -Will Smith
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“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.” -John Henrik Clarke
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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” -Khalil Gibran
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“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it’s surest support.” -George Washington
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“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” -Anais Nin
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” -Bill Gates
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“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.” -H. P. Lovecraft
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“Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.” -Dalai Lama
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“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.” -Muhammad Ali
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“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.” -Joseph Campbell
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“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.” -Aristotle
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“It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.” -Johannes Tauler
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“Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.” -William Pennington
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“To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.” -Philip Schaff
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“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.” -John Morley
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“The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.” -Orson Pratt
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“I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.” -Aaron Neville
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“The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.” -Anita Diament
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“Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.” -Mary Garden
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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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“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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“Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.” -Bodhidharma
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“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.” -Saint Ignatius
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“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.” -Louis Kronenberger
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“More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.” -Alexander Chase
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“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.” -Moses
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“Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.” -E. Stanley Jones
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“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.” -Robert Browning
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“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.” -Philip James Bailey
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“My life was changed in one breath from God.” -Donna Summer
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“Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.” -Octavia Butler
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“We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.” -George A. Smith
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“Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.” -Gary North
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“The Son of God became man so that we might become God.” -Athanasius
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“There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.” -Saint Ambrose
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“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.” -Galileo Galilei
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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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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” -Marcus…
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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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“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” -Oswald Chambers
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“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.” -Joseph Ratzinger
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“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.” -Paul Valery
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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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“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” -Francis of Assisi
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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” -Frederick Douglass
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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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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” -Pope John Paul II
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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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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.” -Albert Camus
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“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” -Buddha
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“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.” -Helen Keller
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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” -Socrates
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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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