Quotes About Religion

En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar», decía Herbert. «Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo.»

In matters concerning God, you have to believe, not reason," Herbert would say. "If you reason, God vanishes like a mouthful of smoke." Roger

In individuals, as in society, high culture, sensibility and intelligence can, at times, coexist with the fanaticism of the torturer and the assassin. In the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. When religion and the state become confused, freedom irremediably disappears.

Dudaba a veces de la trascendencia, de Dios, pero nunca de la función irremplazable del catolicismo como instrumento de contención social de las pasiones y apetitos desquiciadores de la bestia humana.

Make no mistake: patriotism is a religion, the enemy of lucidity. It is pure obscurantism, an act of faith.

Todo eso era verdad, pero también lo era que la idea de Dios no cabía en el limitado recinto de la razón humana. Había que meterla allí con calzador porque nunca encajaba del todo. Él y Herbert Ward habían hablado muchas veces de este asunto. "En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar", decía Herbert. "Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo

Um Estado laico não é inimigo da religião; é um Estado que, para resguardar a liberdade dos cidadãos, desviou a prática religiosa da esfera pública para o âmbito que lhe corresponde, que é o da esfera privada. Porque quando a religião e o Estado se confundem, desaparece irremediavelmente a [L]iberdade.

Llama al diezmo que se paga a la Iglesia un impuesto «puramente negativo» pues no genera beneficio alguno ni al propietario, ni al arrendatario, ni al soberano, sólo a la Iglesia (lo que confirma el tibio creyente que era Adam Smith).

Son cosas irreconciliables, Alice. No se engañe: el patriotismo es una religión, está reñido con la lucidez. Es puro oscurantismo, un acto de fe».

Pero un día perdí la fe y nunca más la he recobrado. Creo que la perdí apenas empecé a pensar. Para ser creyente no conviene pensar mucho.

I don't believe . Religion? Humans desperate to take out infinity insurance. Death? The great big nada . Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.

There were two things that Beckman truly loathed in life: sitting in the first three rows of the movie theater and the Catholic Church.

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

People will fight for money and they'll fight when they're drafted and forced to, but they will also go to war or put themselves in danger when they find a cause—political or religious—that makes them feel valued, important and wanted.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

Avoid participating in any religious community where the clear truth-claims of Scripture are ignored while contemplative and mystical practices are favored simply for their spiritual experience. Be careful of any church or ministry wherein acts of mercy and environmental stewardship are devoid of a theology of the cross and wind up being little more than the worship of created people and things. And be careful not to worship a good thing as a god thing for that is a bad thing.

Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.

The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

Wie ist das jetzt mit der Religion bei dir? Es war nicht Neid. Eher eine Art zoologische Faszination.

Besides, he grew up in the city of the poor. You know as well as I do that in this country Marxism is a religious passion of the middle class.

Were it not for their aversion to pigs, the Egyptians would probably have invented ham, for they salt-cured meat and knew how to domesticate the pig. But Egyptian religious leadership pronounced pigs carriers of leprosy, made pig farmers social outcasts, and never depicted the animal on the walls of tombs.

It turned out that salt was a microcosm for one of the oldest concepts of nature and the order of the universe. From the fourth-century-B.C. Chinese belief in the forces of yin and yang, to most of the world's religions, to modern science, to the basic principles of cooking, there has always been a belief that two opposing forces find completion - one receiving a missing part and the other shedding an extra one. A salt is a small but perfect thing.

history's greatest lessons is that once the state embraces a religion, the nature of that religion changes radically. It loses its nonviolent component

The medieval church imposed fast days on which sexual intercourse and the eating of flesh were forbidden, but eating cold foods was permitted. because fish came from water, it was deemed cold, as were waterfowl and whale, but meat was considered hot food.