Religion Quotes - Page 82

The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

My religion is, to live through Love.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.