“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
— Anatole France
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I have been all things unholy. If
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
— Francis of Assisi
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I think what I and most other
“I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.”
— Peter L. Berger
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear,
“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of
“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”
— Khalil Gibran
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has
“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
— John Henry Newman
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Look at Islam in a rational manner
“Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.”
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The day is not far off when
“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”
— John Maynard Keynes
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is
“Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.”
— Benjamin Whichcote
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Every religion is True one way or
“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”
— Joseph Campbell
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For some years I deserted religion in
“For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.”
— Lionel Blue
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