Religion Quotes
Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.
This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.
Karate is not A religion, cult or dogma. It is incumbent on every generation of martial artists, to find the weaknesses of the previous generations, not to revere it . . .
The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.
The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.
If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)
The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.
It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.
Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.
I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.
A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.
You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.
A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.
People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.
If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh.
God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.
A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.
Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization
Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.
Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you.
I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
Long term sustainability requires relentless endurance and gratitude in all your efforts.
You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.
The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.
Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.
The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.
...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.
The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.