Refinement Series
Religion
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Collected Religion
Latest AdditionsEvery religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.— Joseph Campbell
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.— John D. Rockefeller
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.— Jesus Christ
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.— James Madison
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.— Bodhidharma
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.— Pope John Paul II
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.— Richard Burton
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.— Paul Tournier
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.— Paul Tillich
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.— Henry Ward Beecher
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