Religion Quotes - Page 26

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

A man is only as faithful as his options.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.