Religion Quotes - Page 60

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

I don't believe in atheists.

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.