RELIGION QUOTES IV

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The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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A people without religion does not exist, or, if it does exist, it exists only as an abnormal and deficient specimen of the genus to which it belongs, which is of no more account in the just estimate of the type than a fox without a tail, or a lawyer without a tongue.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

What Does History Teach?

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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

DAN BROWN

Angels & Demons

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All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice -- that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Urn Burial

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Religion, as it has been generally taught, is anything but an elevating principle. It has been used to scare the child, and appal the adult. Men have been virtually taught to glorify God by flattery, rather than by becoming excellent and glorious themselves, and thus doing honor to their Maker. Our dependence on God has been so taught, as to extinguish the consciousness of our free nature and moral power. Religion, in one or another form, has always been an engine for crushing the human soul. But such is not the religion of Jesus Christ. If it were, it would deserve no respect.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts


Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis ... mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Future of an Illusion

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The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

EUGENE IONESCO

Rhinoceros

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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

MAHATMA GANDHI

Hind Swaraj

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. What the mystic finds waiting for him, then, is a humanity which has been prepared to listen to his message by other mystics invisible and present in the religion which is actually taught. Indeed his mysticism itself is imbued with this religion, for such was its starting point. His theology will generally conform to that of the theologians. His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually. And this he can do easily, since theology has tapped that very current whose source is the mystical. Thus his mysticism is served by religion, against the day when religion becomes enriched by his mysticism. This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.

HENRI BERGSON

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

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Religion is a sovereign balm to the penitent; but burning coals to the scoffer.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

SUE MONK KIDD

When the Heart Waits

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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Future of an Illusion

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Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice: everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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No man is to make Religion for himself; but to receive it from God; and the teachers of the Church are not to make Religion for their hearers, but to show it only, as received from God.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


For the existence of any religion there must be a belief that there is, somewhere in the universe, an intelligence of a higher order than man's, and that this intelligence possesses a power superior to what we call the ordinary powers of nature. And religion is simply the condition or adjustment of the relations between each individual human soul and that higher intelligence, call it by what name you will.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"