Religion Quotes - Page 31

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.

I thank the Lord for the night time.

To live at all is miracle enough.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.