Religion Quotes
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Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
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Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the chief party in its own decay, And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?
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There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion.
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Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.
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As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.
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Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
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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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There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
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It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
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The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
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In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.
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In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
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The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
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My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
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Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
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Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.
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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
