Quotes About Faith

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

All neurotics seek the religious

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

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