Religion Quotes - Page 106

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.

Too many temples where we could worship the beast.