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4086 Religious quotes by 2085 unique authors
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and…
— Geronimo
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the…
— Learned Hand
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we…
— Carter Heyward
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
— Bertrand Russell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions…
— Sigmund Freud
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Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More…
— Greg Mortenson
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The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond…
— Thomas Merton
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries…
— Adolf Hitler
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I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
— Simon Gray
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Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
— W.C. Fields
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The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the…
— Rudy Giuliani
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion…
— Albert Einstein
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Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
— John Dewey
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable…
— Tom Robbins
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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no…
— Susan Jacoby
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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question…
— Mark Twain
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Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why…
— Hillary Clinton
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,…
— Kathleen Blanco
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What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that…
— John Bartholomew Gough
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You ask people, do you pray to a person or God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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