Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Religion sayings and Religion Quotes - Chapter 8
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.
My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.
Religion comes from the word 're' or again and 'ligare' meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Religion is just mind control.
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
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