#religion

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. ↗

— Lucretius

#evil #persuading #potent #religion

Religion has a good place and it has its good people. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#good people #good place #people #place #religion

No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life. ↗

— Lynn Martin

#everlasting #government #government program #life #matter

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#coming #invade #life #pass #pretty

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#always #died #his #i #live

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#country #decay #general #generation #god

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#attributes #criticism #every #getting #greater

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#any #foot #ignorance #illness #just

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#painful #punishment #religion #soothing