Religion Quotes - Page 30

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.

The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?