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"I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth."
"There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything."
"Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether."
"An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable."
"The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us."
"There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas."
"To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion."
"There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you."
"I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them."
"It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there."
"Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors."
"Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble ."
"I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one."
"The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus."
"You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth."
"Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go."
"I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs."
"The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion."
"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality."
"Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures."
