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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the chur

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. – Felix Adler

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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. – Felix Adler

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Faith
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. – Felix Adler

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Faith
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence. – Felix Adler

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Anniversary
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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Belief in God is but a whistling in the dark; harmless, enough, perhaps — until it is wedded to the notion that all should carry the same tune. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

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Religion

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

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Religion

Ive been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. – Tom Perrotta

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Religion

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Religion

Random Quotes

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. – Bob Enyart

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Justice & Law

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided. – General Iberico Saint Jean

Category:
Oppression

Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. – Barbara Bush

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Politics