Religion Quotes - Page 108

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

I'm not really into religion.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.