Religion Quotes

"Religion can bring stability and order to a country, but it can also drive them into explosive conflict" "I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate." "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." "Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite" "There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God. If you were inculcated with it as a child, you might have a belief that a certain book is true and God's word. Letting go of that is not easy, but you should do it" "Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life" "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope" "Religion must indeed be reckoned among the matters of highest importance to the state, for when religion is ruined, the constitution follows." "Errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." "True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life" "I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion." "There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and undying hope." "The final end of every human undertaking, whether in science, art, or religion, is the human realization of the identity between the knower and the known, the seer and the seen, the experiencer and the experienced." "He who sings prays twice" "Self-control is not control through your own willpower but rather through the power of the Holy Spirit" "Faith and obedience are bound up in the same bundle" "Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy"