Quotes About Religion

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

Either he must cease to think for himself; or his individualism must be instantly confirmed, and the necessity of religious independence must be emphasized.

For these people religion is the only form of intellectuality.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

If every religious practice that was manadatory was voluntary, and every practice that was voluntary was mandatory, there would be no religions.

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.

A part of our nature rebels against this truth and against that other part which would accept it. A second truth of equal weight contradicts the first, proclaiming through art, religion, philosophy, science and even war that human life, in some way not easily definable, is significant and unique and supreme beyond all the limits of reason and nature. And this second truth we can deny only at the cost of denying our humanity.

and various forms of mental illness, including evangelical Protestantism.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation.

There was a young man from Trinity, Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits, He was seized by the fidgets, Dropped science, and took up divinity.

Muscular Christianity

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.