Quotes About Religion

Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.

If history is to be truly history, if it is to realize values, universally valid values, we cannot know this from the facts in themselves, but we borrow this conviction from philosophy, from our view of life and of the world — that is to say, from our faith. Just as there is no physics without metaphysics, there is no history without philosophy, without religion and ethics.

It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.

Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.

gospel is in the Old and the New Testament alike the core of the divine revelation, the essence of religion, the sum total of the Holy Scriptures.

G OD, the world and man are the three realities with which all science and all philosophy occupy themselves. The conception which we form of them and the relation in which we place them to one another determine the character of our view of the world and of life, the content of our religion, science, and morality.

One arrives at metaphysics, at a philosophy of religion, only if from another source one has gained the certainty that religion is not just an interesting phenomenon—comparable to belief in witches and ghosts—but truth, the truth that God exists, reveals himself, and is knowable.

In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.

157Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.

All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.

Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.

No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.

Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.

The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not rest on undeniable facts; it has often in the past and in the present been contradicted by the facts. But that does not matter; miracle is the dearest child of faith.

the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.

The peculiarity of the Christian religion as has been so often shown and acknowledged even by opponents,248 lies in the person of Christ.

Scripture knows no twofold religious veneration, one of a lower kind and the other of a higher kind. Roman Catholics, accordingly, admit that worship (latria) and homage (dulia) are not distinguished in Scripture as they distinguish them, and also that these words furnish no etymological support for the way they are used.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Religious discipline is nothing but a permanent psychic shelter. You stay inside it, and you're less vulnerable to whatever horrors happen in life.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction—a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's

Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira la religión. ¿Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira a las masas oprimidas, satisfechas con la suerte que les ha tocado porque se han creído las mentiras que les imponen. La historia misma es una pura ficción; una ficción provista de ejército. ¿Y la realidad? La realidad es una ficción con presupuesto ilimitado. Nada más. ¿Y cómo se financia la realidad? Pues con otra ficción: el dinero. El

Priest came with soggy offerings of comfort. God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.