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“I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.”

Christian Night Church Religious Views Christianity Wife Praying Regard Catholic Dinner My Wife Every Night

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.”

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Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.”

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Author:Bill Nye

“The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.”

Country Christian Courses Nations Church Religious Duty Regard Gods Will Curse Bless Duty To God

Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.”

States Government Christian Church Religious Talking Concepts Regard Separation These Days Restraint Maintaining Church And State Separation Of Church And State

Author:D. James Kennedy

“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.”

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Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real.”

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Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.”

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Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.”

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Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.”

World Humans Real Faith Religious Human Beings Opposites Regard Real World Unseen Unreal Unreal World

Book:Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.”

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Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov