Religion Quotes - Page 42

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

True religion is the realization of truth.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

My religion is kindness.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.