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I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.