Religion Quotes - Page 69

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

If Jews in the name of their religion were killing Americans, then I think that would be an appropriate comparison. But as far as I know, there`s only one religion that`s doing that, and it is a segment of the religion of Islam that`s doing that.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

Religion implies revelation.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.