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Quotes About Perspective

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
~ William Pickens
Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.
~ Daniel Quinn
I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.
~ Brendon Urie
I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.
~ Jimmy Carter
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.
~ Ron Howard
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
~ Alan Watts
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
~ Alfred Edersheim
One mans cult is another mans religion.
~ Annie Parisse
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.
~ Gillian Anderson
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
~ Joseph Campbell
Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.
~ George Carlin
Jesus was a crackpot.
~ Rajneesh
I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
~ William James
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?
~ Blaise Pascal
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
~ Mark Twain
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
~ Susan Jacoby
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
~ Winona Ryder
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
~ Bob Dylan
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
~ Bill Keller
Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.
~ David Eller