3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
3 December 2020 Robert Shea Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
3 December 2020 James Larkin The question of religion was a matter for each individual’s conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
3 December 2020 Laurence Housman It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
3 December 2020 Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn’t necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
3 December 2020 Ernest Istook There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
3 December 2020 Chaim Potok And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud’s view of man.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
3 December 2020 Pete Seeger I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
3 December 2020 Tommy Chong Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ The spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
3 December 2020 Anthony de Mello These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
3 December 2020 Tony Wilson Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
3 December 2020 John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
3 December 2020 Jesus Christ For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
