Religion Quotes - Page 71

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude.

The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.

In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

The true religion of America has always been America.