Religion Quotes - Page 55

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

May they rest in eternal peace.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

I build only living stones--men.

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.