Quotes About Change

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.