Quotes About Community

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

"Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion."

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are...I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.