Religion Quotes - Page 67

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

Religion is caught, not taught.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.