Religion Quotes - Page 104

If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.

To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.

The source of nature is spirit.

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various heathen nations who were anciently in the habit of packing them upon the backs of various dumb animals.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

I used to hate religion, I loathed it in my angry days.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.