Quotes About Men

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

All religions have been made by men.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions.

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.