Quotes with religion

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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Fred A. Allen The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Billy Graham The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ben Kingsley The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Aldous Huxley The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Works (1913) IV, 315
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Ben Shapiro The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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