Quotes about religion
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust
religion easier dies
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges
religion
What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian. Jonathan Swift
religion morality
Morality binds and blinds. Jonathan Haidt
religion conservative temper
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism. Edith Hamilton
religion golden priests
In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices. John Jewel
religion say-anything trying
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life. John Hay
religion absolute-truth absolutes
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
religion may wells
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all. Francois Fenelon
religion atheism connections
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.... James Madison
religion atheism principles
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. James Madison
religion atheism citizens
It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree. James Madison
religion religious-truth fundamentals
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. James Madison
religion causes world
One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him. George MacDonald
religion would-be world
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now! George MacDonald
religion essentials
Religion is life essential. George MacDonald
religion atheism way
There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity. Lee Strobel
religion care want
The universe does not care what we want. Lawrence M. Krauss
religion atheism way
The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. Lawrence M. Krauss
religion mystery mythology
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. Joseph Campbell
religion infinity literature
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
religion atheism theory
A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations. Karl Popper
religion perversion
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
religion kingdoms kingdom-of-god
The kingdom of god... or nothing!!! Lorenzo Snow
religion doubt literature
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. Lord Byron
religion earth
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth. Mahatma Gandhi
religion ears warning
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself. Mahatma Gandhi
religion coins violence
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin. Mahatma Gandhi
religion matter makers
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Mahatma Gandhi
religion sophistry
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry. Mahatma Gandhi
religion world good-things
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive. Norman Vincent Peale
religion forgiving matter
Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter. Norman Vincent Peale
religion may matter
There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be. Norman Vincent Peale