Religion Quotes
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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
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A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
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Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.
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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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I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
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I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.
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Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
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The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
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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!
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It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.
