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“If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.”

Ifs Trying Religion Left Rooms Teacher Core

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.”

Doe Care Religion Morality Roots Tests Fruit Core Grades

Book:Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters

Source: Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters

“As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.”

“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.”

World Stories Body Religion Three This World Periods Empty Disappear Core Fifty Heavenly Forty Easter Tombs Exit Angelic Announcements Ascension Time Periods

Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”

Looks Heart Religion Powerful Cutting Tree Morality Fairs Roots Skins Lays Core Command Apples Knives Pruning

Author:Nathaniel Culverwell

“Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.”

Humans Problem Science Religion Values Scientist Prejudice Blind Core Spots Faithful Mechanism Core Values Blind Spots Ferrets

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson