Religion Quotes
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Religion presents few difficulties to the humble; many to the proud; insuperable ones to the vain.
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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
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Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worthy the name.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self and benevolence to men.
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Religions must all be tolerated and the state has to keep an eye that none of them shall derogate the other, because here everyone must find his salvation in his own way.
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Should a man happen to err in supposing the Christian religion to be true, he could not be a loser by the mistake. But how irreparable is his loss, and how inexpressible his danger, who should err in supposing it to be false.
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Spiritual anarchy is not likely to work either for the happiness of the individual or for the welfare of society.
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Such as men themselves are, such will God appear to them to be; and such as God appears to them to be, such will they show themselves in their dealings with their fellow men.
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Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy and considerable end of life to themselves.
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
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The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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The body of all true religion consists in obedience to the will of God, in a confidence in his declaration, and an imitation of his perfections.
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The Christian is the highest style of man.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.
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The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal; and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it; but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.
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The first Sunday I sang in the church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
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