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• True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

  A. Powell Davies

  Rights, Principles, Disbelievers

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• If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

  Dan Simmons

  Forever, Religion, Endymion

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.403, Spectra

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• One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Religion, One Day

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• Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error and error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free inquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free inquiry been indulged at the era of the Reformation, the corruption of Christianity could not have been purged away.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Errors, Government, Giving

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• Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

  John Arbuthnot

  Enemy, Advantage

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

  J. I. Packer

  Wise, Prayer, Mean

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• If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Men, Scripture

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Europe, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.510

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• To God's own heart be true.

  Dottie West

  Religious, Heart, Religion

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• True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Organization, Soul

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• The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Compassion, Essence

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• I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

  George Santayana

  Art, Stupid, Moving

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• Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Believe, Men

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Prayer, Errors, Light

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Prayer, Eye, Men

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Happiness, Quilts, Laughter

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• I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Religion, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

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• The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Hands, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria

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• This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

  Charles Hodge

  Hate, Delight

  Charles Hodge (1841). “The Way of Life”, p.300

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• 'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Giving, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.572, Best Books on

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• We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

  George Washington

  Christian, Religious, 4th Of July

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• If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Compassion, Essence

  "World-Destruction: Never, Impossible!". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1994.

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• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards “The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved”, Lulu.com

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