Religion Quotes - Page 51

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.