Religion Quotes - Page 100

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.