Religion Quotes
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
William James
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
Mahatma Gandhi
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
Jonathan Swift
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
William James
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
Mahatma Gandhi
These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.
Burt Prelutsky
Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
Alma Katsu
How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.
Ernst Junger
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
Sigmund Freud
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Al-Maʿarri