Religion Quotes - Page 64

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.