Religion Quotes - Page 52

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.