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True religion is the life
we live,
not the creed we profess.
J.F.
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This is what I found
out about religion: it gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis and the confidence
to
leave the results to a higher Power. Only by trust in God
can a person carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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Science
and religion, religion and science, put it
as I may, they
are two sides of the same glass,
through which we see
darkly until these two,
focusing together, reveal the
truth.
Pearl Buck
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Being religious means asking passionately
the question of the
meaning of our existence
and being
willing to receive answers,
even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich
We have been looking
for the burning bush, the parting of the sea,
the
bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking
at the ordinary day-by day events in our lives for
evidence of the miraculous.
M.
Scott Peck
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I believe
in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the
breath of His affections,
feel His invisible hand,
drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess
an
inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a
universal mind
that marks out for me the course of my own
destiny.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The only struggle which religions can
justify, the only struggle worthy of
humans,
is the moral
struggle against humanity's own disordered passions,
against
every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress
others,
against every type of hatred and violence.
Pope John Paul II |
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There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as they like
about their
religion, but if it does not teach them to be
good and
kind to person and beast, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell |
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Religion
is never devoid of emotion,
any more than love
is.
It is
not a
defect of religion, but rather its glory,
that it
speaks always the language of feeling.
Elton Trueblood
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The
church must be reminded that it is not
the master or the
servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the
state.
Martin
Luther
King, Jr.
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Science without religion is
lame,
religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein |
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People
will wrangle for religion, write for it,
fight for it,
die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Religion
should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire.
Charles
L. Wheeler |
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heart of Religion is not an opinion about God,
such as philosophy
might reach as the conclusion
of an argument; it is a personal relationship with God.
William
Temple
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No person has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as
to forget
in one's own ease the service due one's neighbor;
nor has any person
a right to be so immersed in active life
as to neglect the contemplation of God.
St. Augustine |
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Depending
on the use to which it is put, religion can be a demonic
force. Religion should bring us together, but it is exploited by
some
to create greater schisms among us. Nothing could be more
unfortunate. Religion must always be for the people.
People do not
exist for the sake of religion. This must be the fundamental
guideline
of religion in the twenty-first century.
Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhism
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Religion exists not to
answer all questions, or to clear up all mysteries;
if
that were its purpose, it could never be accomplished,
for life grows,
not less, but more mysterious as the
intellect enters more fully into its truth. . .
Religion
leaves a million questions unanswered and apparently
unanswerable.
Its purpose and object is not to make people certain and cock-sure about everything,
but to make
them certain about those things of which they must be certain
if they
are to live a human life at all. Religion does not
relieve us
from the duty of thought; it makes possible
for a person to begin thinking.
G.A.
Studdert-Kennedy |
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I would rather live in a world where
my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so
small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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Religion
has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It
survives
on the level of activities rather than
in the stillness of
commitment.
Abraham
Joshua Heschel |
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During the past thirty
years, people from all civilized countries on the earth
have consulted me. Among all my patients in the second
half of life--
that is to say, over thirty-five--there has
not been one whose problem
in the last resort was not
that of finding a religious outlook on life.
It is safe
to say that every one of them fell ill because he or she had
lost that which
the living religions of every age have
given to their followers, and none of them
has been
really healed who did not regain his or her religious outlook.
Carl Jung |
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Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if
there be any praise, think on these things.
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Love
and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The
rituals
and outward signs are not as important as
one's
actions and deeds.
Religion should be a path to God,
not
something to fight about.
Bernie Siegel
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I also see the world of religion.
I see some
of my brothers and sisters
trying to
be
religious without being fully human. They seem a little
rigid and narrow at
times, wanting to be holy, but not
human. They
seem to be winning a place in heaven,
without
realizing or enjoying
the beauty
of earth. They keep the
ten commandments,
but their
observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small
and the air in that world is
stale.
John Powell, S.J.
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Religion does not blithely
promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem,
no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that
endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.
Norman Vincent
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Religion
is doing; we do not merely think our religion or feel it,
we
"live" our
religion as much as we are able, otherwise it
is not religion but
fantasy or philosophy.
George L. Gurdjieff |
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If a religion does not teach
love, respect, and regard for others,
it cannot be the religion of humanity.
Muktananda |
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The religious mind does not function from a center of authority, whether
it is accumulated knowledge as tradition, or it is experience—which is
really the continuation of tradition, the continuation of conditioning.
The
religious spirit does not think in terms of time, the immediate results, the
immediate reformation within the pattern of society. . . We said the
religious mind is not a ritualistic mind; it does not belong to any church,
to any group, to any pattern of thinking. The religious mind is the mind
that has entered into the unknown, and you cannot come to the unknown
except by jumping; you cannot carefully calculate and enter the unknown.
The religious mind is the real revolutionary mind, and the revolutionary mind
is not a reaction to what has been. The religious mind is really explosive,
creative—not in the accepted sense of the word creative, as in a poem,
decoration, or building, as in architecture, music, poetry, and all the rest
of it—it is in a state of creation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Book of Life:
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I never
told my religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never
attempted
to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have
judged
of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not
from
our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson |
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Whenever violence is done in the name of religion,
we must make it
clear to everyone that in such instances we are not dealing with true
religion.
Pope John Paul II |
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We have just enough religion to
make us hate,
but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Edwards |
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The
essential thing to know about God is that God is Good.
All the rest is secondary.
Simone
Weil
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Before
you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me
in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you
love your God, show me in how you love all His children; before
you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about
it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end I'm
not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as in
how you choose to live and give.
Cory Booker |
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Religion, in one
way or another, has always been with us. Religion will
continue to always be with us. What needs to be discarded and
thrown
away is the ecclesiastical rubbish which binds us to religion instead
of God.
Shantidasa |
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Religion is a
bridge to the spiritual--but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
Unfortunately, in seeking the spiritual we may become attached
to the bridge rather than crossing over it.
Prabhushri |
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Religion,
wherever it exists, spreads over the whole of life. One
cannot take it up as one takes up golf--by giving it a couple of
afternoons a week. That kind of amateur religion is not
religion.
Religion is either the whole of one's life, or else it is not
religion,
no matter how much fuss is made over it.
Gregory Vlastos |
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Any true religious practice is to see once again that which is already
so: to see the fundamental unity of all things, to see our true face.
It’s
to remove the barrier between ourselves and another person or another
thing: to remove or to see through the nature of the barrier.
Charlotte Joko Beck
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