Religion Quotes - Page 61

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

Religion is the pious worship of God.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.