220 Religions Quotes for You to Enjoy

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create. Lawrence Wright

Religions Part Prosper Because Create Communities Large Large Part

Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st. Lawrence Wright

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A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. Lisa Randall

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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions. Madeline Kahn

Good Mother Word Sense Religions Good Sense Various She Bohemian Searcher

My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man. Madhur Bhandarkar

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Ours is a vast country, many languages, many castes, creeds, religions. Mamata Banerjee

Country Ours Religions Vast Languages Many Creeds

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world. Mark Rylance

Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade

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Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East. Martti Ahtisaari

East Religions Constructive Also Force Middle Middle East Themselves

All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. Mary Beard

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. Mary Douglas

Will Unlikely Sectarian Religions More Sure Am Get Organized

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles. Max Heindel

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The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa. Max Heindel

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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions. Mircea Eliade

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Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa. Mo Ibrahim

Rest Country Experiment Too State Our Has-Been Citizenry Religions Able Diverse Construct Could Prosperous Reaching Sahara Continent Were Been Cultures Africa Across Congo Sudan Peaceful Multitude Largest

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality. Mona Eltahawy

You Women Controlling Down All Religions Religions Sexuality About Them Shrink

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' Neale Donald Walsch

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