"I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard."
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"Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods."
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"Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?"
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"Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong."
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"Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help."
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"There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex."
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"To God's own heart be true."
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"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is."
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"I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief."
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"It makes sense that anybody with religious beliefs would pray that the Lord would watch over them and protect them as their sleeping. We just want to send that little message out to the Lord, "Take care of us.""
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"I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality."
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"At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm."
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"In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean to say that Islam is backward; I mean to say that there are certain experiences that it hasn't gone through. Christianity had the great religious wars of the 17th century. Islam, fortunately for the Muslims, did not have that. Christianity worked out a system of toleration. Islam was always more tolerant of Christendom."
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"Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country."
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"Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless."
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"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
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"How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!"
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"I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything."
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"My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel."
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"The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things."
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