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Religion Quotes
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
76
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
75
"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world."
75
"Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death."
74
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
71
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
70
"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."
68
"Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit."
68
"Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace."
68
"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus."
67
"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
67
"To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse."
66
"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
66
"So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma."
66
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
66
"First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai."
65
"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
65
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
65
"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
64
"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
64
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
64
"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."
64
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
64
"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."
63
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
63
"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
63
"Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself."
63
"It was part of your religion to hate the British."
63
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
62
"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
62
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
62
"As long as this belief, 'I am the doer' is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state."
62
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
61
"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."
61
"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."
60
"There is no Master but the Master, he said, "and QT-1 is his prophet."
60
"There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it."
60
"Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions."
59
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
59
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