Religion Quotes - Page 97

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence and meaning and truth. ...if we want a society that reveres life, that defends the family, and that discourages delinquency and promotes decency, we cannot force a privatization of religion; we must allow the truth-claims of religious faith to be uttered aloud in the public square.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.