Comparative Religion Quotes

• Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

  Robert Genn

  People, Religion, Priests

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• Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

  Ronald Knox

  Religious, Way, Study

  "The Hidden Stream". Book by Ronald Knox, p. 105, 1952.

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• BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Different, Study

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.290, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Desire, Exotic, Interest

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.

  Irina Tweedie

  Names, Oneness, People

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Different, Tides

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• I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Dad, School

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• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

  Michael Eisner

  Taken, School, College

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

  Carl Jung

  Hands, Facts, Different

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Hands, Satan, Hell

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• I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

  Amy Brenneman

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Children, Giving Up

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