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The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Yoga is not a religion to me.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.
Revealed religion has no weight with me.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
