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Religion Quotes
A cozy religion quote can reset a whole afternoon. This collection gathers 536 religion quotes — some short enough for an Instagram caption or a bio, others long enough to keep you company with a cup of tea. People look up religion quotes when they want words for a text, a journal, a Pinterest pin, or a quiet pause between tasks. Copy one for a friend, save it to your Tiny Panda library, or pin the shareable cards. Tiny Panda Quotes is a gentle library, not a shouty feed. Wander, keep what stays with you, and come back whenever you need a little more religion in the day.
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
Desmond Tutu"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy."
Christopher Hitchens
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
Richard Burton
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
Martin Luther
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
Pope John Paul II"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."
Moses"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
Buddha
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
Dalai Lama
"Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy."
Franz Werfel
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
Khalil Gibran"I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me."
Mike Tyson
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
George Bernard Shaw"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
Frederick Douglass
"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
Frederick the Great"I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches."
Aaron Neville
"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things."
Dwight L. Moody
"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."
Saint Teresa of Avila"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you."
Jesus Christ
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