Religion Quotes
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There are or is indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
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Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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Under the claim of “religious freedom”—the cover for a gigantic new fictional creature called “corporate conscience”—the rights of workers could be given short shrift once again.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go.
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I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.
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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.
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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.
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Music is my religion.
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We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.
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The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
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Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
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Morality does not depend on religion.
