Religion Quotes - Page 14

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.