Religion Quotes - Page 105

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

Morality binds and blinds.

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.