Quotes About Religion

Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Si en una situación ha confiado en el Señor lo mejor que ha podido, haga a un lado cualquier culpa que sienta. Esa es una culpa falsa.

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

No conozco ninguna norma en cuestiones de religión, filosofía, ciencia, ni complicación de las tareas domésticas, que no pueda ser moldeada para que se ajuste a cualquier exigencia. Ajustamos las normas a nuestras opiniones o quebrantamos una ley que nos apetece quebrantar

Although the reward of poverty, which is the kingdom of heaven, be doubtless due unto the poor, yet we command you to give daily unto the almoner the tenth of your bread for distribution, a thing which the Christian religion assuredly recommends as regards the poor.

For there are two distinct religions, "one good if the other fails," in La Romagna, and many still believe that that of the spirits, or ancient gods, is, on the whole, the most to be relied

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within

It takes 35 million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Love is my religion — I could die for that.

There is no prophet that preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics...

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. And nothing is more desolating than a thorough knowledge of the private self.

I think poetry is the greatest of the arts. It combines music and painting and story-telling and prophecy and the dance. It is religious in tone, scientific in attitude. A true poem contains the seed of wonder...

Religion & Philosophy. — Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

Well! some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug PROPERTY.

And so our conception of religion is getting roomier and more inclusive today, and love is the magician who has enlarged the temple!

I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays.

Religion considers the Universe deterministic and science considers it probabilistic — an important distinction.

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Religion is being locked in and you can't get out; atheism, the other side of the door.