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Quotes about religion reflect humanity’s enduring search for meaning, purpose, and the sacred. They express faith, doubt, devotion, and reflection across cultures and traditions. The following collection offers perspectives that invite contemplation on belief and the role it plays in human life.   ◀ Back
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That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
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As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.
- Fred Kaplan
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
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Without denying that adaptation may be one of God's methods of operation, it may be definitely said, that an intelligent Master of the universe, in which we believe, has the power to prepare an earth to fit the needs of man; or fit man to meet the conditions of earth. If He were not able to do so, He would be inferior to His creatures who build houses for human comfort, and equip them with heating, freezing, and many other devices. The argument for adaptation, standing alone, requires chance as a creative force. That we do not and cannot believe.
- John A. Widtsoe
An Understandable Religion
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the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
- Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death
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Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
- Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
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The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!
- Richard King
Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East'
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They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leaning towards materialism, and an affectation of cynicism; but by now it was fashionable to profess an equally uncritical belief that all natural phenomena were manifestations of the cosmic mind. In both periods, when a man passed beyond the sphere of his own serious scientific work he chose his beliefs irresponsibly, according to his taste, much as he chose his recreation or his food.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
- Rosemary Mahoney
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground – An Intrepid Woman's Journey Through Six Extraordinary Religious Pilgrimages
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If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.
- Allen Greenfield
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We want her to learn how she can see difficulties as opportunities. And, ultimately, how God can and will use hurt in her life - even big hurt - for her good and His glory.
- Sissy Goff
Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World
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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path, fulfilling the duties of his station in life, attending to his morning and evening prayers, approaching the holy sacrament frequently and performing good and merciful works. For the pious and believing catholic, for the just man, death is no cause of terror. Was it not Addison, the great English writer, who, when on his deathbed, sent for the wicked young earl of Warwick to let him see how a christian can meet his end? He it is and he alone, the pious and believing christian, who can say in his heart:
O grave, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting?
- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce (12-Jun-2008) Paperback
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And they liked to say they were very lucky and very blessed by God, but it was always clear they meant they were special. Set not just apart, but above.
- Hanna Pylväinen
The End of Drum-Time
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Faith doesn't become divine until you breathe oneness into it.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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After I was settled, I walked down the hill and came to a place with fine gardens inside a high metal picket fence, and as the gate was open I went in.

It was the Bahai Temple. It was the Main Office of International Bahai, a very nice religion without much of an image, with no hero, or at any rate no hysterical hero, no big show-biz trial, no fancy parables, no crucifixion, just a man who sincerely believed there was a nice way for everybody to live.
- William Saroyan
Places Where I've Done Time
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Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is impossible to live in peace with those one believes to be damned. To love them would be to hate God who punishes them. It is absolutely necessary either to reclaim them or torment them. Whenever theological intolerance is allowed, it is impossible for it not to have some civil effect.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
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If one day you see a witch riding a flying broomstick, it's merely an illusion created in your mind by the culture you live in. And if one day you see a helping hand reaching out from the heavens, thinking a white-bearded being has heard your prayers and rushed to your aid, that too is just a cultural illusion!
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Walaupun bukan penganut agama Katolik, kusertai anakku membakar lilin di depan patung Bunda Maria dan Santo Petrus. Dalam hati kumohon Tuhan memberikan semua yang terbaik bagi anak bungsuku. Sebenarnya aku tidak memerlukan patung atau lilin guna menyertai doaku. Setiap saat setiap waktu, begitu teringat kepada kebesaran Tuhanm aku langsung menyebut namaNya sambil mengatakan doa maupun permohonan. "Tuhan itu pemilik semesta alam!" kata ibuku. "Dia mengerti semua bahasa di dunia. Tanpa kauucapkan pun, Dia mengetahui isi batinmu.
- Nh. Dini
Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang
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Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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It is your innocence that speaks. Alas, my child, in the world, from which hitherto you have been mercifully sheltered, you will find that sin is not only real but terribly abundant.
- Rafael Sabatini
Bellarion
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Most things were against the rules, so when one old lady across the hall from us fell in her shower, we couldn't do anything but steal cinder blocks from the courtyard and arrange them in her bathroom so she could sit as she washed.

In situations like that, God doesn't mind stealing.

Or maybe he does, but you get more positive points for helping the old lady who was so happy she cried and kissed my cheeks so hard she rubbed tears all over them.

Or, wait, okay, actually, I think the point is that above all other laws is the law of love. I forgot that one for a second.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
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There's not one religion but two,
one is commercial religion,
rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry,
and the other is lived religion,
rooted in kindness and inclusivity -

the atheist and the believer
drink from the same water,
breathe the same air,
eat the same food -

mother nature, the actual origin of life,
doesn't segregate between believer and
nonbeliever, it's only the savages who do that.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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One can measure the greatness of a nation and its moral progress by the way it treats its animals. Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of all that lives and is helpless and weak in the world. The cow means the entire subhuman world.
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And I burn with those flames for every minute that we're allowed." Chap49 Page 360
- Sierra Simone
Saint
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That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
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As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.
- Fred Kaplan
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
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Without denying that adaptation may be one of God's methods of operation, it may be definitely said, that an intelligent Master of the universe, in which we believe, has the power to prepare an earth to fit the needs of man; or fit man to meet the conditions of earth. If He were not able to do so, He would be inferior to His creatures who build houses for human comfort, and equip them with heating, freezing, and many other devices. The argument for adaptation, standing alone, requires chance as a creative force. That we do not and cannot believe.
- John A. Widtsoe
An Understandable Religion
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the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
- Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death
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Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
- Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
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The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!
- Richard King
Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East'
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They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leaning towards materialism, and an affectation of cynicism; but by now it was fashionable to profess an equally uncritical belief that all natural phenomena were manifestations of the cosmic mind. In both periods, when a man passed beyond the sphere of his own serious scientific work he chose his beliefs irresponsibly, according to his taste, much as he chose his recreation or his food.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
- Rosemary Mahoney
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground – An Intrepid Woman's Journey Through Six Extraordinary Religious Pilgrimages
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If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.
- Allen Greenfield
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We want her to learn how she can see difficulties as opportunities. And, ultimately, how God can and will use hurt in her life - even big hurt - for her good and His glory.
- Sissy Goff
Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World
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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path, fulfilling the duties of his station in life, attending to his morning and evening prayers, approaching the holy sacrament frequently and performing good and merciful works. For the pious and believing catholic, for the just man, death is no cause of terror. Was it not Addison, the great English writer, who, when on his deathbed, sent for the wicked young earl of Warwick to let him see how a christian can meet his end? He it is and he alone, the pious and believing christian, who can say in his heart:
O grave, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting?
- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce (12-Jun-2008) Paperback
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And they liked to say they were very lucky and very blessed by God, but it was always clear they meant they were special. Set not just apart, but above.
- Hanna Pylväinen
The End of Drum-Time
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Faith doesn't become divine until you breathe oneness into it.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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After I was settled, I walked down the hill and came to a place with fine gardens inside a high metal picket fence, and as the gate was open I went in.

It was the Bahai Temple. It was the Main Office of International Bahai, a very nice religion without much of an image, with no hero, or at any rate no hysterical hero, no big show-biz trial, no fancy parables, no crucifixion, just a man who sincerely believed there was a nice way for everybody to live.
- William Saroyan
Places Where I've Done Time
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Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is impossible to live in peace with those one believes to be damned. To love them would be to hate God who punishes them. It is absolutely necessary either to reclaim them or torment them. Whenever theological intolerance is allowed, it is impossible for it not to have some civil effect.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
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If one day you see a witch riding a flying broomstick, it's merely an illusion created in your mind by the culture you live in. And if one day you see a helping hand reaching out from the heavens, thinking a white-bearded being has heard your prayers and rushed to your aid, that too is just a cultural illusion!
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Walaupun bukan penganut agama Katolik, kusertai anakku membakar lilin di depan patung Bunda Maria dan Santo Petrus. Dalam hati kumohon Tuhan memberikan semua yang terbaik bagi anak bungsuku. Sebenarnya aku tidak memerlukan patung atau lilin guna menyertai doaku. Setiap saat setiap waktu, begitu teringat kepada kebesaran Tuhanm aku langsung menyebut namaNya sambil mengatakan doa maupun permohonan. "Tuhan itu pemilik semesta alam!" kata ibuku. "Dia mengerti semua bahasa di dunia. Tanpa kauucapkan pun, Dia mengetahui isi batinmu.
- Nh. Dini
Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang
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Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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It is your innocence that speaks. Alas, my child, in the world, from which hitherto you have been mercifully sheltered, you will find that sin is not only real but terribly abundant.
- Rafael Sabatini
Bellarion
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Most things were against the rules, so when one old lady across the hall from us fell in her shower, we couldn't do anything but steal cinder blocks from the courtyard and arrange them in her bathroom so she could sit as she washed.

In situations like that, God doesn't mind stealing.

Or maybe he does, but you get more positive points for helping the old lady who was so happy she cried and kissed my cheeks so hard she rubbed tears all over them.

Or, wait, okay, actually, I think the point is that above all other laws is the law of love. I forgot that one for a second.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
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There's not one religion but two,
one is commercial religion,
rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry,
and the other is lived religion,
rooted in kindness and inclusivity -

the atheist and the believer
drink from the same water,
breathe the same air,
eat the same food -

mother nature, the actual origin of life,
doesn't segregate between believer and
nonbeliever, it's only the savages who do that.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One can measure the greatness of a nation and its moral progress by the way it treats its animals. Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of all that lives and is helpless and weak in the world. The cow means the entire subhuman world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I burn with those flames for every minute that we're allowed." Chap49 Page 360
- Sierra Simone
Saint
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That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.
- Fred Kaplan
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
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Without denying that adaptation may be one of God's methods of operation, it may be definitely said, that an intelligent Master of the universe, in which we believe, has the power to prepare an earth to fit the needs of man; or fit man to meet the conditions of earth. If He were not able to do so, He would be inferior to His creatures who build houses for human comfort, and equip them with heating, freezing, and many other devices. The argument for adaptation, standing alone, requires chance as a creative force. That we do not and cannot believe.
- John A. Widtsoe
An Understandable Religion
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the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
- Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death
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Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
- Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
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The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!
- Richard King
Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East'
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They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leaning towards materialism, and an affectation of cynicism; but by now it was fashionable to profess an equally uncritical belief that all natural phenomena were manifestations of the cosmic mind. In both periods, when a man passed beyond the sphere of his own serious scientific work he chose his beliefs irresponsibly, according to his taste, much as he chose his recreation or his food.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
- Rosemary Mahoney
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground – An Intrepid Woman's Journey Through Six Extraordinary Religious Pilgrimages
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If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.
- Allen Greenfield
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We want her to learn how she can see difficulties as opportunities. And, ultimately, how God can and will use hurt in her life - even big hurt - for her good and His glory.
- Sissy Goff
Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path, fulfilling the duties of his station in life, attending to his morning and evening prayers, approaching the holy sacrament frequently and performing good and merciful works. For the pious and believing catholic, for the just man, death is no cause of terror. Was it not Addison, the great English writer, who, when on his deathbed, sent for the wicked young earl of Warwick to let him see how a christian can meet his end? He it is and he alone, the pious and believing christian, who can say in his heart:
O grave, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting?
- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce (12-Jun-2008) Paperback
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And they liked to say they were very lucky and very blessed by God, but it was always clear they meant they were special. Set not just apart, but above.
- Hanna Pylväinen
The End of Drum-Time
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Faith doesn't become divine until you breathe oneness into it.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After I was settled, I walked down the hill and came to a place with fine gardens inside a high metal picket fence, and as the gate was open I went in.

It was the Bahai Temple. It was the Main Office of International Bahai, a very nice religion without much of an image, with no hero, or at any rate no hysterical hero, no big show-biz trial, no fancy parables, no crucifixion, just a man who sincerely believed there was a nice way for everybody to live.
- William Saroyan
Places Where I've Done Time
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Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is impossible to live in peace with those one believes to be damned. To love them would be to hate God who punishes them. It is absolutely necessary either to reclaim them or torment them. Whenever theological intolerance is allowed, it is impossible for it not to have some civil effect.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
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If one day you see a witch riding a flying broomstick, it's merely an illusion created in your mind by the culture you live in. And if one day you see a helping hand reaching out from the heavens, thinking a white-bearded being has heard your prayers and rushed to your aid, that too is just a cultural illusion!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Walaupun bukan penganut agama Katolik, kusertai anakku membakar lilin di depan patung Bunda Maria dan Santo Petrus. Dalam hati kumohon Tuhan memberikan semua yang terbaik bagi anak bungsuku. Sebenarnya aku tidak memerlukan patung atau lilin guna menyertai doaku. Setiap saat setiap waktu, begitu teringat kepada kebesaran Tuhanm aku langsung menyebut namaNya sambil mengatakan doa maupun permohonan. "Tuhan itu pemilik semesta alam!" kata ibuku. "Dia mengerti semua bahasa di dunia. Tanpa kauucapkan pun, Dia mengetahui isi batinmu.
- Nh. Dini
Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang
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Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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It is your innocence that speaks. Alas, my child, in the world, from which hitherto you have been mercifully sheltered, you will find that sin is not only real but terribly abundant.
- Rafael Sabatini
Bellarion
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Most things were against the rules, so when one old lady across the hall from us fell in her shower, we couldn't do anything but steal cinder blocks from the courtyard and arrange them in her bathroom so she could sit as she washed.

In situations like that, God doesn't mind stealing.

Or maybe he does, but you get more positive points for helping the old lady who was so happy she cried and kissed my cheeks so hard she rubbed tears all over them.

Or, wait, okay, actually, I think the point is that above all other laws is the law of love. I forgot that one for a second.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
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There's not one religion but two,
one is commercial religion,
rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry,
and the other is lived religion,
rooted in kindness and inclusivity -

the atheist and the believer
drink from the same water,
breathe the same air,
eat the same food -

mother nature, the actual origin of life,
doesn't segregate between believer and
nonbeliever, it's only the savages who do that.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One can measure the greatness of a nation and its moral progress by the way it treats its animals. Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of all that lives and is helpless and weak in the world. The cow means the entire subhuman world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I burn with those flames for every minute that we're allowed." Chap49 Page 360
- Sierra Simone
Saint
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