“Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.”
— Saint Ambrose
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“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
— Swami Vivekananda
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“It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.”
— Herbert Read
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“The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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“He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.”
— Maimonides
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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
— George Santayana
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“Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.”
— Peter Guber
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“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.”
— Felix Adler
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