Religion Quotes
The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.
I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.
Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.
We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.