"the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race."
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"Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless."
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"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God."
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"Jesus, he meets you where you are. Jesus, he heals your secret scars."
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"Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned."
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"Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge."
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"I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles."
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"Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit."
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"What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)"
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"I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine."
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"Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths."
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"Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray."
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"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?"
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"In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity."
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"Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe."
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"I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious."
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"Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people."
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"As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary."
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"If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin."
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"Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must believe?"
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