Quotes About Religion

A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both. Harm can result only if one side or the other remains unconscious of the limitations of its claim to validity.

This is one reason why all religions employ symbolic language or images. But this conscious use of symbols is only one aspect of a psychological fact of great importance: Man also produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams.

In our Western civilization the Cosmic Man has been identified to a great extent with Christ, and in the East with Krishna or with Buddha. In the Old Testament this same symbolic figure turns up as the "Son of Man" and in later Jewish mysticism is called Adam Kadmon. Certain religious movements of late antiquity simply called him Anthropos (the Greek word for man). Like all symbols this image points to an unknowable secret—to the ultimate unknown meaning of human existence.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. —WILLIAM RALPH INGE, OUTSPOKEN ESSAYS, 1922

I will see you in the Bedlam, displayed as a warning of what perverted religion can do!

justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.

you, like its predecessors, into a tortuous world of Tudor

I've never attended a Quaker service before." "We believe that true religion is a personal encounter with God rather than a matter of ritual and ceremony, and that all aspects of life are sacramental. Therefore, no one day or place or activity is any more spiritual than any other. But we gather together at such times to discover in stillness a deeper sense of God's presence.

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.

What the bloody hell is wrong with us? What kind of society turns its back on the neediest amongst them? They call themselves Christians. They smugly go to church every Sunday and pat themselves on the back for being so damn holy. And then they allow this?

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best

But we are each created in God's image and must be allowed to seek our path to Him in our own way.

I never much cared for religion. I don't think God does, either.

I never much cared for religion. I don't think God does, either." I was struck by how he had unwittingly described my own opinion. I, too, often wondered if one faith was any better than the other, considering how much blood had been spilled, but I kept my doubts hidden, for it was never safe to speculate aloud about religion.

We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen; we need more of the things that are unseen

Tutored by secularists, they want God on their own terms, and prefer a worship service in which there's a lot of smiling.

Because the secular culture didn't want a Lord, preaching quit saying, "Thus saith the Lord.

There is that sense that we have to all come together, the challenges have become so great for the human species that it's going to take all of us to find our way out. One of the ways to achieve this goal, of course, is to expand the freedom of religions so that those people who use psychedelics within their religious practise are able to do so. -Rick Doblin

They need to believe in something closer than God, because God often feels too distant." He was right: the saints offer us a ladder to reach Him more easily. "And they bring people together," I contributed. He nodded. "They do. Or at least belief in them does." "One and the same," I said, sounding much more certain than I felt.

Bueno, ya sabes, cuando el diablo se hace viejo, se vuelve religioso.

The Bible was perfectly clear on this point: 'Woman shall be silent in the congregation.' What was there to discuss? Women had no business being members of the clergy.

Como podia alguém justificar as ações mais perversas com a ideia de que tinha carta branca de Deus?

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Quisiera desarrollar la idea de que el hombre sano no tiene ideas. A veces pienso que las ideas religiosas, sociales, políticas, no son sino manifestaciones de un desequilibrio del sistema nervioso.