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Quotes About World

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
~ George Santayana
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
~ Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
~ Noah Webster
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all
~ Richard Dawkins
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
~ Salman Rushdie
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.
~ Bertrand Russell
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
~ John Adams
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
~ Criss Angel
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
~ John Adams
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
~ Alexander Schmemann
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
~ Tim Bishop
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
~ Daniel Dennett
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.
~ Thomas F. Wilson
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.
~ Richard Rohr
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
~ Aphra Behn
"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."
~ David Steindl-Rast
No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
~ Roy Wood Sellars
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
~ Thomas Paine
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.
~ Marina Warner
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
~ James D. Watson