Quotes with religion

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  • Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Carl Sagan A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Honoré de Balzac All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Billy Graham America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Booker T. Washington At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Carol P. Christ Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
    Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess (1987)
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Northrop Frye Between religion's ''this is'' and poetry's ''but suppose this is,'' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Alfred de Vigny But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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