Religion Quotes - Page 92

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.

Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

All religions begin with the cry Help.

True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.

One's true religion is what one cares about most.

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.