Religion Quotes - Page 66

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry for all those inquisitions, crusades, and autos-da-fe. Previous popes were wrong - infallible, perhaps, but wrong.