Religion Quotes
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Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.
Brigham Young
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
Sigmund Freud
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Conversion was not a widely known phenomenon in antiquity. Pagan religions had almost nothing like it.
They were polytheistic, and anyone who decided, as a pagan, to worship a new or different god was never required to relinquish any former gods or their previous patterns of worship.
Pagan religions were additive, not restrictive.
Bart Ehrman
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If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.
Will Durant
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My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it.
Ellen Meloy
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I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
