Quotes About Religion

Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

WHEN Linacer, a distinguished physician, but bigoted Romanist, in the reign of Henry VIII., first fell in with the New Testament, after reading it for a while, he tossed it from him with impatience and a great oath, exclaiming, "Either this book is not true, or we are not Christians." He saw at once that the system of Rome and the system of the New Testament were directly opposed to one another; and no one who impartially compares the two systems can come to any other conclusion.

If the Hindu story exhibits its "god of gods" in such a degrading light, how much more honouring is the Papal story to the Son of the Blessed, when it represents Him as needing to be pacified by His mother exposing to Him "the breasts that He has sucked." All this is done only to exalt the Mother, as more gracious and more compassionate than her glorious Son.

More sins have been committed by the church than any seaman

Sebbene, come tutti a quei tempi, non credessero in Dio, erano però, come tutti, superstiziosi. Della fede si può dubitare quanto si vuole, ma della superstizione si è convinti.

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,And unawares Morality expires.Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!Lo! thy dread empire Chaos! is restor'd:Light dies before thy uncreating word;Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall,And universal darkness buries all.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mindSees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;His soul proud Science never taught to strayFar as the solar walk or milky way;Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n,Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.

Father of all! in every age,In every clime ador'd,By saint, by savage, and by sage,Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

The people's voice is odd,It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.

In the great religions which have given shape to human aspirations, God plays on an orchestra which is far out of tune, yet there has often been a marvelous, rich music made.

Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only-begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp.

Christianity, the humblest of all faiths, degenerated into the most power-hungry and hierarchical religion on the face of the earth. After the emperor Constantine elevated Christianity to the status of a state religion in A.D. 312, the once-persecuted faith became a fierce persecutor of all its opposition.

Dünya halini sevmeyiniz, ne de dünyada var olan?, k?z?m. Tanr? a?k?, dünya sevgisiyle dolu olan ki?ide yoktur!

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.