Religious Quotes - Page 32

• We are religious by nature.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Religion

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• I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

  Lily Tomlin

  Real, Feelings, Desire

  Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

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• I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard and then the fairy came." "Did he? Good. Have a biscuit." I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. "You have to let the fairy into your heart." Look, I wouldn't let him into my garden, okay? I'd shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn't. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?

  Dylan Moran

  Heart, Garden, Sight

  "What It Is". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

  Christopher Hitchens

  Roots, Evil, Way

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Political, Dogma, Kind

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Men, Light, Effort

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.53

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• I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.

  Veronica Roth

  Crazy, Believe, Leaving

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

  Epes Sargent

  Spring, Men, Emotional

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• I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

  David Cronenberg

  Anti Religious

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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• I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

  Brad Pitt

  Great Relationship, Grew Up, Grew

  "Oscar Nominee Brad Pitt On The Unmentionables: Marriage, Politics and Religion". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Religion, Atheism, Rubrics

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• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  Natascha McElhone

  Party, Thinking, Dinner

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• Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Jesus, Judging, People

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• An atheist is as religious as a theist.

  Kedar Joshi

  Atheist, Atheism, Theist

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• Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.

  Jim Atkinson

  Horse, Attachment, Oil

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• Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.

  Alfred William Howitt

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 60, 1895.

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• Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.

  Patricia Rozema

  Book, People, Justice

  "Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena". Book by Katherine Monk, 2001.

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• Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

  Jennifer Stone

  Jobs, Wings, Giving

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Sex, Judging, Wicked

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• The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

  Political, Church, Unions

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• I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Moral, Embryos

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• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Men, People

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• Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Government, Organization

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• Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Years, Ideas, Degrees

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Religion, Depth

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