religion Quotes

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

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“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostiques, consisteth the Naturall seed of Religion”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“That is why my devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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