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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradi

Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. – Naguib Mahfouz

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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
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Naguib Mahfouz
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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. – Naguib Mahfouz

Category:
Poetry
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. – William Barclay

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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. – Paul Tournier

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Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. – Sydney Schanberg

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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. – William Robertson Smith

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