Religion Quotes - Page 98

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church - because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church. The happy person has nothing like religious activity because his whole life is religious.

Jesus was a crackpot.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.