Quotes About Reflection

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

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

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

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.