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“Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.”

People Problem Church Religious Greater Development Tradition Catholic Remarkable Openness Persuasion Desirable Catholic Church Religious Traditions

Author:Francis Arinze

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”

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Book:East Side Story: A Novel

Source: East Side Story: A Novel

“To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.”

Children Reason Religious Numbers Greater Atheism Bears Blessing Investment Positive Atheism Alms

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.”

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Author:Al Smith

“I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.”

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Author:Macklemore

“In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.”

Giving Religious Effort Greater Atheism Reflection Satisfaction Positive Atheism Portions Religious Freedom

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.”

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Author:George Pell

“On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.”

Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

“John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.”

“There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.”

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Book:American Institutions

Source: American Institutions

“The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. It recognizes aesthetic, moral, and religious ideas and experiences as a species, in this case of mental structures or of images, which clearly interacts with other species in the world's great' ecosystem.”

World Humans Ideas Universe Religious Human Beings Moral Vision Cases Clear Greater Regard Structure Species Complexity Aesthetic Agnostic Ecosystems

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.”

Song Religious Greater Gratitude Encouragement Trials Intense Our Future Joyful

Book:The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms

Source: The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

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Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“When the soul knows the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then he clearly feels that the Lord is our own Father, the closest, dearest Father, the best. And there is not greater happiness that to love God with all the mind and heart, and our neighbor as ourself. And when this love is in the soul, then all things bring joy to the soul.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“The Lord wants us to love one another. Here is freedom: in love for God and neighbor. In this freedom, there is equality. In earthly orders, there may not be equality, but this is not important for the soul. Not everyone can be a king, not everyone a patriarch or a boss. But in any position it is possible to love God and to please Him, and only this is important. And whoever loves God more on earth will be in greater glory in His Kingdom.”

“In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into the depth of the thoughts of the saints and understand them with greater exactness. Do not approach the reading of the Divine Scriptures without prayer and asking the help of God. Consider prayer to be the key to the true understanding of that which is said in the Holy Scriptures.”

“The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we can't comprehend it. In the same way our spiritual pastors suffer for us, although we often don't see their suffering. The greater the love of the pastor, the greater his suffering; and we, the sheep, should understand this, and love and honor our pastors.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.”

People Doe Government Nations Enjoy Religious Liberty Greater Share

Author:John Wesley

“I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent.”

“I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.”

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Author:Brian Greene

“I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.”

People I Can Hands Religious Greater Imagine Misfortunes Rulers

Author:Catullus

“Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.”

Religious Greater Dignity Boxes Occasions Gentleman Opera Etiquette Ladies And Gentlemen

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.”

Needs Enough Facts Feelings Religious Greater Fear Of Death Pillow

Author:Brad Pitt

“No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.”

Men Humans Government Religious Greater Affair Obligation Benevolent

Book:Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

“Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.”

Should May Speak Religious Simple Greater Influence Privileged Secularism Public Life Speaks Out

Author:Richard Dawkins