Quotes About Religion

Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.

Dehellenizing Christianity turns it into a sect.

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism. Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influenced by purely religious attitudes

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith.

Die Hinrichtung Ludwigs XVI. ist weniger der politischen Geschichte Frankreichs zuzuordnen als der religiösen Geschichte des Abendlandes. Die Königsmorde besiegelten einen neuen Bund im Blute frevlerischer Opferung.

No hay tontería en que el hombre moderno no sea capaz de creer, siempre que eluda creer en Cristo

The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.

In light of the majority of people today, one prefers them to speak hostile of religion

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.

The word "humanity" in the mouth of a Catholic is a sign of apostasy, in the unbeliever's a sign of coming bloodbaths.

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Michelet.

Es gibt keine universal gültigen Deutungen. Eine religiöse Deutung ist grotesk in einem profanen Kontext, so wie eine profane Deutung grotesk ist in einem religiösen Kontext. Dort sind nur wissenschaftliche Kategorien brauchbar; hier ist alles Zeichen, Symbol, Sakrament. Der Regen ist für den, der anbetet, göttlicher Segen, der auf das Wunder des Weizens fällt.

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Arthur C. Clarke thinks that it may be just a coincidence, "but", he writes, "the Mandelbrot set does indeed seem to contain an enormous number of mandalas or religious symbols, which are found in ecclesiastical designs-such as stained glass windows, and particularly in Islamic art. We find many forms like the Paisley pattern echoing the Mandelbrot set centuries before it was discovered!

Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.