Religion Quotes
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.
Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.
The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin.
The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.
Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...