A Quotes
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“All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this.”
“All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.”
“All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.”
“All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]”
“All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
“ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God".”
“All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us."”
“All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.”
“All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.”
“All religions say that they are the one and only religion. How can a person know that the religion they believe in is correct?”
Source: The Reformation
“all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.”
“All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.”
“All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.”
“All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.”
“All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.”
“All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!”
“All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs that perhaps others cannot fill. No one church can fulfill everybody's needs at every level.”
“All religions want the same thing-salvation. We're all the same.”
Source: War
“All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.”
“All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.”
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. But Christian clergymen are well aware that if they were to attempt to purify Christianity and bring it back to the religion of Christ, the result would be to reform it out of existence. Christianity stands to-day completely explained. Every step in its development is laid bare and shown to be due to purely natural causes, and it is easy to see how much Christianity adopted from other and older religions.”
Source: The Monist
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.”
“All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God”
“All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.”
Source: Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil
“All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.”
“All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.”
“All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.”
“All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.”
“All religious expression is symbolism.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.”
“All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.”
“All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer, reverence, holy books, proselytizing, prophesying, faith, speaking in tongues or spirituality. Fight the menace of second-hand faith! Humanity sincerely thanks you!”
“All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.”
“All reluctance is a lack of confidence.”
“All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.”
Source: Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography
“All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.”
“All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.”
“All requires courage.”
“All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.”
Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”
Source: Metapolitics
“All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.”
Source: Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others
“All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.”
“All respect is earned, even self-respect.”
Source: Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man