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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from... -- Richard P. Feynman
Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it. -- Frans de Waal
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. -- Richard Dawkins
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. -- Ayad Akhtar
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. -- George C. Williams
The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities. -- Eugene Kennedy
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. -- David Eagleman
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well. -- Phylicia Rashad
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
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer. -- Anthony Hopkins
Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary. -- Henry Eyring
I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion. -- Maajid Nawaz
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. -- Northrop Frye
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. -- Lisa Randall
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. -- Tony Blair
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? -- Dwight L. Moody
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. -- Salman Rushdie
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. -- John Woolman
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. -- Stedman Graham
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions. -- Rudolf Steiner
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. -- Corrie Ten Boom
There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it. -- Tony Blair
The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished. -- Stephen V Monsma
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it... -- Rob Bell
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. -- Rajneesh
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. -- Ian Barbour
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. -- Margaret Atwood
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life. -- Jack Kornfield

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