Religious Quotes - Page 33

• 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 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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• 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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• Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

  John Baillie

  Names, Religious Experience

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• The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Devil, Saint, Would Be

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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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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• 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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• An atheist is as religious as a theist.

  Kedar Joshi

  Atheist, Atheism, Theist

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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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• Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Atheist, People, Tolerance

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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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• 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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• 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 United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  Eileen Simpson

  Educational, Home, Opportunity

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• Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.

  Kenneth D. Wald

  Teaching, Historical, Atheism

  Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown (2007). “Religion and Politics in the United States”, p.369, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Ends

  "Bush Speaks at Annual National Prayer Breakfast". www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Prayer, Children

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• We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Groups

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• Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

  Jerry Falwell

  Humor, Gay, Church Today

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• This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

  Jerry Falwell

  Humor, Issues, Wade

  "Conservatives condemn 'error of biblical proportions'" by Christopher Heredia, www.sfgate.com. June 27, 2003.

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• Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.

  Barry W. Lynn

  Powerful, Rights, Air

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• The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Country, Cities, Suggestions

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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 sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, School, Humor

  "AFTER THE ATTACKS: FINDING FAULT; U.S. 'Secular' Groups Set Tone For Terror Attacks, Falwell Says" by Gustav Niebuhr, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2001.

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• I want to make people think, and I don't want to come across like I am egotistical or that I want to change people's thoughts. I don't believe that as a comic I can convert anyone's opinion. I think I can maybe make someone look in one direction or the other but I can't make a religious person stop believing in God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Believe, Thinking, One Direction

  Source: montrealrampage.com

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