Religion Quotes - Page 80

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

Commerce unites; religion divides.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.