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Religious Quotes by Benjamin Rush
- The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue…
- Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
- Christianity is the only true and perfect religion...
- Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
- Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of…
- Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of…
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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… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila