Religion Quotes - Page 57

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what's not possible.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.