Religion Quotes
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“Regardless of our Colour, Race and Religion – We are Brothers “
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Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
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If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
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The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
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Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.
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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
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Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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The way in which science and religion by and large complement each other is becoming ever clearer, as are the natures of the various points of tension between them and some possible resolutions of those tensions.
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
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We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
