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• My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Religion, Letters

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Light

  Jonathan Edwards (1845). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission”, p.18

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• Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Knowing, Ass

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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• One's true religion is what one cares about most.

  Walter Starcke

  Care

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• Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

  John Calvin

  Justification, Turns, Hinges

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• Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, True Friend, Exercise

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - II”, Lulu.com

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• Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Social Values, Profound

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• As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

  Pierre Corneille

  God, Religion, Polytheism

  "Polyeucte martyr". Play by Pierre Corneille (Act IV, Scene VI), 1642.

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• The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

  Neil Postman

  Distance, Mean, Magic

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.122, Penguin

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• True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Religion, Quality, Doe

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.291, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Errors, Imagination, Catholic

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• True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Things In Life, Religion, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

  Hugh Blair

  Clouds, Giving, Cheerful

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

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• That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

  David Hume

  Enthusiasm, Superstitions, Corruption

  David Hume, Knud Haakonssen (1994). “Hume: Political Essays”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

  Franz Bardon

  Views, Law, Magic

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• when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Prayer, Intelligent, Forests

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• Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

  Sam Ervin

  Government, Atheism, Finance

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• If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

  Emile Chartier

  Men, Religion, Form

  "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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• True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religious, Depth, Twins

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• Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

  Fanny Fern

  Gloomy, Dear, Reader

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.169

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• I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Stars, War, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain unknowable. That 'something' is the target of the whole spiritual search. You cannot make it an object of knowledge, but you can experience it, you can drink of it, you can have the taste of it - it is existential.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Target

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• The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Cake, Growth, Saving

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.10, 北戴河出版

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• Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Laughing, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Mind, Religion

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