Religion Quotes - Page 49

some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

There is zero evidence for god.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

All religions are true but none are literal.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.