Quotes About Religion

America in the twenty-first century has generally returned to the worldview of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment rationalists, who were so appalled at the religious wars of the previous century that they recoiled from all religion, unable to fathom a world in which religion and freedom could be mutually supporting.

religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive.

religion to other religions. Then he came to his main point: the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration towards truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot imagine a scientist without that profound faith.

the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

Wilberforce says that when he was first taken to a play, "it was almost by force." It seems severe and ridiculous to us that what he had imbibed of religion would make him think the theater sinful, but we have to appreciate the circumstances and shibboleths of that era.

A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.

Excuse me, young elven princess, but have you heard the word of your lord and savior, Diablo, today?

Science without math is religion

Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn't allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant

Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.

El mundo occidental atraviesa una grave crisis, un proceso de descomposición cuya causa es la secularización del espíritu, la separación de un espíritu mundanizado respecto de sus raíces religiosas.

I would rather believe God doesn't exist than believe he doesn't care.

Proofs of the "truth" always start from the center of one's own religion and work outward. The result is a biased way of thinking which we are brought up to accept from childhood. Nevertheless generations lived and still do live in the conviction that they possess the "truth.

We continue to live in the dulled, sticky mess of the psychology of religion, which has answers to everything, none of which are true.

On the one hand, there is a booming industry surrounding yoga, self-help, and spiritual tourism, while on the other, traditional religions seem polarized between fanaticisms of all types and vapid, consumerist banalities of the "I'm spiritual, but not religious" sort. The continued, tired debates of science on one side and religion on the other serve to muddy the waters even more.

If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich in corrupt old Europe must be a sign of droneishness; but to be rich in fresh young American was the fruit of hard work. The beehive provided Americans with the ideal image for their religion of work.

Many men want wealth--not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Every thing subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.

It is the duty of Christians to make religion lovely; he who makes religion unlovely is more an infidel than if he simply denied the doctrines of Christianity. He is a worm at the core, and not a worm on the leaf.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.