Religion Quotes - Page 79

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.