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Find the Common Thread in These Religion Quotes

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All religions attempt to explain creation, life, and death. These explanations, however diverse, point to God. Get in touch with your soul with these religion quotes. Connect with the Supreme Being with a clear mind and a pure conscience.

Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

T. S. Eliot
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Voltaire
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Benjamin Franklin
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Isaac Bashevis
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Stendhal
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Mark Twain
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Larry Flynt
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Bill Gates
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Swami Vivekananda
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Kahlil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Blaise Pascal
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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