3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
3 December 2020 Charles de Secondat Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
3 December 2020 Karl Barth Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford The earth is the Lord’s fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
3 December 2020 H. P. Lovecraft If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
3 December 2020 G. I. Gurdjieff Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith Haven’t two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can’t convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
3 December 2020 John Updike The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
3 December 2020 Gary North This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
3 December 2020 Dave Davies I think there’s been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
3 December 2020 Francis of Assisi I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
3 December 2020 Tom T. Hall My theory is if you have a religion, it’s a good one. Because some people don’t have any at all.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
3 December 2020 George Washington Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
3 December 2020 Emanuel Swedenborg To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men’s souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people… and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
3 December 2020 George Orwell As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
3 December 2020 Lionel Richie I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion… some places where there’s just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.
