Best religion & values Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”

“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.”

“What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.”

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Author:Pat Buchanan

“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

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Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.”

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Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.”

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Author:Susan Jacoby

“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.”

“Made no mistake: America is a Christian nation. The bedrock of our theo-democracy is our Judeo-Christian values. that term, by the way, is a bit of a misnomer. It implies that Christianity and Judaism are equal.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.”

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Author:Lily Montagu

“The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.”

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Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“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.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

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Author:George Orwell

“Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.”

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Author:Sivananda

“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”

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Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.”

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Author:Reese Witherspoon

“A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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