Religion Quotes - Page 75

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.