“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”
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“I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.”
“Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.”
“Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.”
“First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.”
“Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.”
“Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.”
“There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.”
“Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.”
“Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.”
“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.”
“We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.”
“I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.”
“The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.”
“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
“Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.”
“Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.”
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.”
“Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.”
“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.”
“Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.”
“Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.”
“I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.”
“Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.”