Religion Quotes - Page 54

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.