Religion Quotes - Page 50

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

There is no conflict between religion and science.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.