Quotes 241 till 260 of 348.
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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.
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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 -
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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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.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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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.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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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.
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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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.
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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)
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