Quotes About Meaning

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.