Religion Quotes - Page 62

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.