Religion Quotes
8559 quotes by 3394 authors
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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…
— Aristotle
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
— Aristotle
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse…
— Karen Armstrong
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
— Karen Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
— Karen Armstrong
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out…
— Karen Armstrong
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
— Francis of Assisi
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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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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
— Rowan Atkinson
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel…
— Chinua Achebe
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in…
— Chinua Achebe
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
— Saint Augustine
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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