Religious Quotes
4086 quotes by 2176 authors
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of…
— Hannah Arendt
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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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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of…
— 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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can…
— 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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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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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal…
— Francis of Assisi
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher.…
— Chinua Achebe
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
— Saint Augustine
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against…
— Teresa of Avila
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The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
— Michele Bachmann
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel…
— Amy Adams
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart…
— Albert Barnes
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the…
— Dave Barry
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
— Dave Barry
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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
— Dave Barry
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