Religion Quotes - Page 34

• Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heartfelt, Sincerity, Indispensable

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• The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

  Thomas Paine

  Fate, Foundation, New Testament

  Richard Watson, Thomas Paine (1855). “Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of The Age of Reason”, p.133

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

  Hosea Ballou

  Wise, Religious, Men

  Hosea Ballou (1832). “Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture”, p.216

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• Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Physicians, Needs

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• I think while zealots fast and frown,
  And fight for two or seven,
  That there are fifty roads to town,
  And rather more to Heaven.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.266

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• Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

  Zoroaster

  Sensual, Divine, Mortals

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• We are religious by nature.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Religious

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• Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

  John Tillotson

  Reality, World, Gains

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• Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Purpose, End Of Life

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.330

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• Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, True Or False

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

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• The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

  Jane Porter

  Temptation, May, Morality

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.21

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• Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Religious, Inspire, Duty

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• It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Baptists, World

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.18

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• Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Lessons, Way

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• The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Character, Individual Choice

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• The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

  Joseph McCabe

  Records, Century, Decent

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• Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Feet, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.277, Library of Alexandria

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• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Proportion, Catholicism, Protestantism

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• As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mind, Doe, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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

  Henny Youngman

  New Year, Giving Up, Years

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• A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Running, Wall, Support

  Finley Peter Dunne (2015). “Mr. Dooley Says”, p.74, The Floating Press

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• I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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