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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. -- Annie Besant
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. -- Will Smith
Bad Religion took a long time to develop into gold-record-status artists. Along the way we learned and applied our knowledge, and Atlantic helped us every step of the way, since 1993. -- Greg Graffin
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men. -- Annie Besant
There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days. -- Charles Spurgeon
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. -- Maria Monk
I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others. -- Mandy Moore
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. -- Joseph Lancaster
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. -- Martin Seligman
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. -- Emile Durkheim
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. -- Jane Smiley
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge -- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion. -- Kedar Joshi
The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion -- Stephen Jay Gould
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience. -- Martin Luther
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. -- Blaise Pascal
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. -- Jonathan Edwards
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge. -- Herbert Spencer
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. -- Joseph Addison
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge. -- Idries Shah
We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God. -- Sunday Adelaja
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body -- Mahatma Gandhi
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. -- Salvador Dali
There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience. -- Thubten Yeshe
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. -- Jonathan Edwards
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower. -- Toba Beta
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. -- Baruch Spinoza
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife. -- Chanakya
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both. -- Russell M. Nelson
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion. -- William H. Macy
All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. -- L. Ron Hubbard
It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied. -- Santosh Kalwar
Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion. -- John Gresham Machen
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. -- Elijah Muhammad
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one. -- Rajneesh
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again. -- Marilynne Robinson
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. -- Michel de Montaigne
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge. -- H. P. Lovecraft

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