Religion Quotes - Page 39

• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Men, Indulge In

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Religious, Conviction

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• A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Confidence, Religious

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• What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Mean, Sunday

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• The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, People

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• My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Land, Training

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.170, Mark Twain

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• It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Men, Toil

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

  Dogen

  Weed, Spring, Flower

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• Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Heart, School, Mean

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• Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Indifference, Destroyed, Bigotry

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• Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Inspirational, Jesus, Jobs

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• We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Weather, Loyal

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

  Mark Twain

  Moon, Sun, Should

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.61, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Men, Done

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.177, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  Art, Business, Taxation

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• The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Wife, Doe

  Mark Twain (1984). “The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it”, p.290, Library of America

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• I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

  Roger Babson

  Single, Christian, Mother

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• A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Spiritual, Men, Sea

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• The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Science, Next

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Giving, Community, Doctrine

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• One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Lying

  John Burroughs (1924). “Complete writings of John Burroughs”

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• The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Attitude, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.273, SIU Press

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• The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Ships, He Man

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