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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message. -- Ziggy Marley
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. -- Peter Atkins
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system. -- Sam Ervin
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. -- Ron Paul
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. -- Cat Stevens
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. -- Polly Toynbee
Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life? -- Warren Bennis
We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion. -- Jackie Tabick
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents. -- Annie Besant
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.' -- Neale Donald Walsch
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. -- Erykah Badu
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love. -- Rajneesh
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember. -- Radhanath Swami
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths. -- Annie Besant
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. -- Simon Greenleaf
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion. -- Rudy Giuliani
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion. -- Julian Baggini
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. -- King Hussein I
There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. -- Elton John
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. -- Adam Hamilton
Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere. -- Shunryu Suzuki
If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope. -- George Hook
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. -- Swami Vivekananda

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