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  • The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. -- Jonathan Sacks
  • If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions. -- Louis Farrakhan
  • Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
  • Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions. -- Adolf Hitler
  • A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture. -- John Hagelin
  • When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts -- D.T. Suzuki
  • The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion. -- Brad Pitt
  • In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. -- Roger Babson
  • As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. -- Ruth Benedict
  • I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings. -- Marianne Williamson
  • For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. -- Ada Lovelace
  • Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. -- William C. Brown
  • Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith. -- Louis Auchincloss
  • The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. -- Albert Einstein
  • One of the world's great religions ? which has more than 1.4 billion adherents ? somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine. -- Steven Emerson
  • Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. -- Victor Hugo
  • The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country. -- Ed Miliband
  • A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony. -- William Cobbett
  • Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. -- James Madison
  • The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. -- Bonaventure
  • Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on errorâ??s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools. -- Al-MaÊ¿arri
  • Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? -- Marcel Duchamp
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