Quotes About Change

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

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

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

We need a new religion.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Evolution is faith, a religion.

I broke with my religion in college.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.