#religion

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#class #contentious #hockey #i #me

I broke with my religion in college. ↗

— Anne Rice

#college #i #religion

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#bible #college #college education #education #knowledge

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#because #middle #middle ages #now #people

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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