Quotes About Religion

Art is not simply an external ornament donned by the cult to conceal its excessively harsh and austere side; rather the cult has an aesthetic aspect in itself.

As all the other beliefs and practices assume less and less religious a character, the individual becomes the object of a sort of religion. We carry on the worship of the dignity of the human person, which, like all strong acts of worship, has already acquired its superstitions.

Society in general, simply by its effect on men's minds, undoubtedly has all that is required to arouse the sensation of the divine. A society is to its members what a god is to its faithful. A god is first of all a being that man conceives of as superior to himself in some respects and one on whom he believes he depends.

Religion is in a word the system of symbols by means of which society becomes conscious of itself.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Uno dei motivi della ribellione degli americani fu il sospetto che il governo della madrepatria volesse imporre alle colonie la Chiesa anglicana come religione di Stato. Nelle

Alla vigilia della "marcia su Roma", durante un convegno del Pnf tenuto a Napoli (24 ottobre 1922), il duce proclamò che il fascismo rispettava la monarchia e l'esercito, riconosceva il valore della religione cattolica, intendeva attuare una politica liberista favorevole al capitale privato e restaurare l'ordine e la disciplina nel paese.

Io non credo che in Maometto, e anche quando mi pare e piace.

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Those kinds of morals and that kind of religion which tend to make the firmest and most effectual character are sure to prevail, all else being the same; and creeds or systems that conduce to a soft limp mind tend to perish, except some hard extrinsic force keep them alive.

The defect of this religion is, that it is too abstract for the practical, and too bare for the musing.

A nation will be automatically destroyed if its people forget their religion , culture and tradiations.

Christianity is precisely the religion par excellence, because it exhibits and manifests, to the fullest extent, the very nature and essence of every religious system, which is the impoverishment, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity for the benefit of divinity.

Indeed there must have been a very deep-seated dissatisfaction with life, a very intense thirst of heart, and an almost absolute poverty of thought, to secure the acceptance of the Christian absurdity, the most audacious and monstrous of all religious absurdities.

Indeed, for us alone, who are called the enemies of the Christian religion, for us alone it is reserved, and even made the highest duty ... really to exercise love, this highest commandment of Christ and this only way to true Christianity.

May we not suppose that all men are equally inspired by God? Then, surely, there is no further use for mediators.

Idealists of all schools, aristocrats and bourgeois, theologians and metaphysicians, politicians and moralists, religionists, philosophers, or poets, not forgetting the liberal economists—unbounded worshippers of the ideal, as we know—are much offended when told that man, with his magnificent intelligence, his sublime ideas, and his boundless aspirations, is, like all else existing in the world, nothing but matter, only a product of vile matter.

We had first the fall of God. Now we have a fall which interests us more—that of man, caused solely by the apparition of God manifested on earth.

While the root of all the absurdities that torment the world, belief in God, remains intact, it will never fail to bring forth new offspring.

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

With all due respect, then, to the metaphysicians and religious idealists, philosophers, politicians, or poets: The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty, and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind, both in theory and practice.

There are, no doubt, sceptics in religion who treat skepticism as a luxury which can be safely enjoyed only by the few. Religion they think good for morals; morals they think good for society; society they think good for themselves.