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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. ↗

— Theodore Dalrymple

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Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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My religion is no way of knowing me. ↗

— Jeet Thayil

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...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst. ↗

— Richard Rohr

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Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well. ↗

— Indra Sinha

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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

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I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do. ↗

— Billy Connolly

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