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• It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Religion, Departure, Corruption

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• It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Travesty, Inferiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.

  Tryon Edwards

  Heart, Emotion, Enlightened

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1145, Ravenio Books

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• True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

  Charles Studd

  Giving, Missionary, Missions

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• All true religion must stand on true morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religion, Morality

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Mean, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

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• Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

  Samuel Richardson

  Ignorance, Pride, Religion

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• As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

  Horace Mann

  Truth Is, Variance

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.78

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• The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Self, Grace

  Sir Isaac Newton (1950). “Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan”

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• We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Blessed, Hands, Justice

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• The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Multitudes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Teaching, Men, Understanding

  Bartolomé de las Casas (1992). “Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas”

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• A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophy, Ideas, Religion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.378

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• I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones — by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.

  Jubal

  Running, Organization, Able

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• True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

  Henry Scougal

  Real, Soul, Phrases

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• True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

  John Henry Newman

  Spring, Roots, Intellectual

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.165, Aeterna Press

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• There is no contradiction between true religion and science

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Contradiction, Science And Religion

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• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Quran, Muhammad, Prophet

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• The religions we call false were once true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2728, Delphi Classics

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• And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Independent, Oneness, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Foundation, Fabric

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• That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

  Roger Williams

  Church, Needs, Weapons

  Roger Williams (2001). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience: Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace : Who, in All Tender Affection, Present to the High Court of Parliament, (as the Result of Their Discourse) These, (among Other Passages) of Highest Consideration”, p.82, Mercer University Press

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• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

  J. D. Greear

  Sacrifice, Blessing, People

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• No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Men, Doe, Hazards

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