Quotes About Religion

That is why," Chadwick explains, "the problem of secularization is not the same as the problem of Enlightenment. Enlightenment was of the few. Secularization is of the many."[129]

The market was mostly Protestant. The industry was mostly Jewish-run. Yet a Midwest Catholic minority gained control.

but thinkers and feelers relate to God differently. So do introverts and extroverts. And that goes for all sixteen personality types in the Myers-Briggs matrix, all nine Enneagram types, and all four DISC profiles.

God couldn't care less about protocol. If He did, Jesus would have chosen the Pharisees as His disciples. But that isn't who Jesus honored.

Albert Einstein said it best: "Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

He hoped and prayed that God had a special place for soldiers of any religion, of any country, of any age, who trusted so much their leaders and their cause.

Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion.

When understood in all its rich complexity, religion does not simply provide secure foundations but destabilizes every type of religiosity by subverting the oppositional logic of eitherjor.

I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit had entered us. But after the baptism everything got worse.

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions

Faith is like a mental illness," Richard Dawkins has said, "a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence."2 Sam Harris agrees, saying, "We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common, we call them religious. Otherwise, they are likely to be called mad, delusional, or psychotic."3

If religion is the opiate of the masses and Marxism the opiate of the intellectual, then cyberspace is the opiate of the twenty-first-century schizoid man, polarized between mind and body.

I think I understood intuitively that there was no sustenance for me in the religion of explanation and prohibition.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't.

The thinker has much to contend with—the home, marriage, his own body, convention, books, the weight of past reflection, and loneliness. But sometimes he is compelled to contend with something more: not just the indifference or even the mild disdain of the crowd, but its actual hostility. In Western religion the death of Jesus is central; in the heroic tradition, the death of Achilles; in philosophy, much revolves around the judicial murder of Socrates.

did anyone really believe in God anymore? In Satan? That there truly was a daily battle between good and evil waged within our souls and for our souls?

Phony never led anyone to Jesus.

Sooner or later, we have to realize that Jesus is more than church.

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

Satan's greatest deception is to convince people that they don't need Jesus Christ as their Savior from sin. Don't be duped by the devil. Don't fall for this grand deception. Come to Christ and believe in Him if you've never done so.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

We had a Muslim president for seven and a half years,