Religion Quotes - Page 73

There's no God higher than truth.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned.

We have fossils... We win!

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.