Quotes About Religion

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.

so intimate is the connexion between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people.

Passing from the sectaries of the law itself,[the Gnostics] asserted that it was impossible that a religion which consisted only of bloody sacrifices and trifling ceremonies, and whose rewards as well as punishments were all of a carnal and temporal nature, could inspire the love of virtue, or restrain the impetuosity of passion.

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. Gibbon, Edward. HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPLETE VOLUMES 1 - 6

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The

The theologian," says Gibbon, "may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven, arrayed in her native purity; a more melancholy duty is imposed upon the historian:— he must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: My vow of poverty has given me an hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince. — I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

The old man had smiled kindly. "It is in their nature, child. God has made woman the weaker vessel." It was an old belief, dating back to St Paul himself. "It is man who is made in God's image, my child. Man's seed produces his perfect likeness. Woman, being only the container in which the seed matures, is therefore inferior. She may still reach heaven, but, being inferior, it is harder.

England's Protestant," they declared. "Why else did we throw out the Stuarts? The government and their placemen are selling us down the river. If they'll give way over Catholics, what will they give way over next?

King Charles I of England believed in the compromise worked out under Queen Elizabeth – that the Church of Rome had fallen into evil ways, that the English Church was purified Catholicism, and that it was the Anglican bishops, nowadays, who were the true inheritors of the apostles.

The answer to Russia's problems lies here, in Russia. . . . The church is the key. If Russia's guiding force is not religion, then her people will be listless. We can have Western laws, independent judges, perhaps even parliaments -- but only if they grow gradually out of a spiritual renewal. That has to come first.

La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.

By this time, the Julian was already eleven days behind the Gregorian calender. But it was better to be a little late than to agree with the Pope!

de María la Sanguinaria; y cuando, al cabo de cinco tristes años, ésta murió sin haber tenido hijos, a Susan no le asombró que en Inglaterra la religión continuara siendo un tema sin resolver. Sólo

Iglesia anglicana.

came to create a pure church and to conduct a holy experiment free of opposition, distraction, and error. They were not hypocrites who demanded freedom of religion then denied that same freedom to others. Freedom of

No. He had a few fruitcake sympathisers, of course—but there was nothing ecclesiastical about it. That came afterwards. The Santiago was largely secular, but they couldn't engineer religion out of the human psyche that easily. They took what Sky had done and fused his deeds with what they chose to remember from home; saving this and discarding that as they saw fit. It took a few generations until they had all the details worked out, but then there was no stopping them.

But people designed and built the bridge." "Under God's will. Don't you understand? It's nothing you can argue with, Tanner. Give up now.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Mais c'est faire un pacte avec le diable, car il perd son âme, celui qui veut être religieusement aimé. Elles m'ont obligé à feindre la méchanceté, je ne leur pardonnerai jamais ! Mais que faire ? J'avais besoin d'elles, si belles quand elles dorment, besoin de leurs adorables gestes de pédéraste, besoin de leurs pudeurs, si vite suivies d'étonnantes docilités dans la pénombre des nuits, car rien ne les surprend ni ne les effraie qui soit service d'amour.

L'église de tout à l'heure. Plus de tapis rouge. Ce soir, une vierge de moins.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.