Religion Quotes
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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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I had to practise each religion for a time - Hinduism, Islam, Christianity. Furthermore, I followed the paths of the Saktas, Vaishnavas, and Vedantists. I realized that there is only one God toward whom all are travelling; but the paths are different.
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On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith.
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While religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
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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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The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
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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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Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.
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Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
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The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact. Boorish people are blessed with athletic or musical skills that qualify them to earn more money in a year than many of us will earn in our lifetime. Saintly people are struck down by disease before they can use their gifts to help others. The task of religion is not to teach us to bow our heads and accept God’s inscrutable will. It is to help us find the resources to live meaningfully and to go on believing, even in a world where people often don’t get what they deserve.
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
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I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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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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Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.
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Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise.
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.
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I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
