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• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

  Hosea Ballou

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• In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society’s feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

  Juan Goytisolo

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• Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

  Charles Eastman

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  Tags in Real, Religious

• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family – Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

  Trina Paulus

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  Tags in Sunday, Religious

• India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world’s largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.

  Henry Paulson

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• I’ve always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it’s more when it fits in.

  Jim Parsons

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  Tags in Religious, Loved

• My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn’t be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that’s essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

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• One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

  Graham Hawkes

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• While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

  Sam Harris

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• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  Sam Harris

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• On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Propositions, Religious

• The usefulness of religion – the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good – is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It’s not an argument that it’s reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

  Sam Harris

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  Our Constitution was not intended to be used by any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

  Katharine Hepburn

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• Obviously, you don’t have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  Gary Hamel

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  If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

  Christopher Hitchens

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• Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue’s time has come and we need to move forward.

  Kay Hagan

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• Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

  Radhanath Swami

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  Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain’t worth a shit — not with the Good Lord telling him how to f**k you on the deal.

  William S. Burroughs

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• At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

  Robert Stone

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  Tags in Reality, Religious, Silence