Quotes About Religion

This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt as to the truth of the new religion, ordered one of the courtiers to adopt it experimentally; if he prospered more than the others, the religion was to be adopted universally. This is the method (with modifications to suit modern times) which the pragmatists advocate in regard to all religious controversies.

Sometimes, if pious men are to be believed, God's mercies are curiously selective.

Tanr?bilimin kötü yan?, y?k?c? eÄŸilimler yaratmak deÄŸil, böyle davran??lara yüksek bir töre süsü vermek, bilgisiz, barbar çaÄŸlardan kalma al??kanl?klara aç?kça kutsal bir özellik tan?mak olmuÅŸtur.

The whole conception of God...is a conception quite unworthy of free men

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use god as an excuse for their cruelty.

Religion has existed since before the dawn of history, while science has existed for at most four centuries; but when science has become old and venerable, it will control our lives as much as religion has ever done. I foresee the time when all who care for the freedom of the human spirit will have to rebel against a scientific tyranny.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

It seems that sin is geographical.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: Oh, but you forget the good God. Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes.

Ä°lahiyatç?lar küçük ÅŸeyler için ÅŸükretmeye al??m??t?r ve bilimciler onlara bir tanr? verdikleri sürece bunun nas?l bir tanr? olduÄŸunu pek umursamazlar.

It is outrageous arrogance for any one faith in God to believe it is the be-all and end-all of religion. That all other faiths are wrong.

Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walked the streets of Jerusalem, 1,734 million people alive on this earth today call themselves by the ever-dividing, ever-uniting word: Christian. God is still scattering the seeds a few righteous renegades planted in a city called Antioch. Had they only known what they were starting.

If man places his faith in a god he has recreated in his own image, has he placed his faith in God at all? And if not, how can such a man be saved?

hearts of devotion, not heads full of religion.

Ours was a patriarchal world. To be anything different wouldn't have been Southern Baptist.

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24

If I say: "I won't mention Him or speak any longer in His name," His message becomes a fire burning in my heart. Jeremiah 20:9

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him. 1 Peter 1:8

Unbelief. Oh, they believed in God. Their oversight was that they simply didn't believe the God they believed in.

Have you noticed how people who most ignore God are the first to blame Him in time of tragedy?

There are wonderful things that affect us, but nothing can touch us at the depth that God can touch us. Psalm

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.