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“Religion allows economic endeavours and scientific endeavours to achieve economic livelihood and convenience. It does not ask one to sit idle and expect to be fed naturally or automatically. It does not ask to avoid medicines and cures to treat illnesses. It does not discourage intellectual and scientific pursuits to discover cause and effect relations in the universe and make use of such knowledge. Even in religious knowledge, religion does not feed religious knowledge in brains automatically, but it asks to seek that knowledge by reading, deciphering, thinking and reflecting. Seeking knowledge is regarded as an obligation rather than fed as an effortless gift in humans. In fact, every endeavour which brings comfort, convenience, social good and welfare is an act of virtue and religion encourages one to cooperate in virtuous endeavours (Al- Maida: 2). Thus, in pursuit of livelihood or finding cure of a disease, religion does not prescribe some religious rituals alone.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.”
“Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.”
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.”
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.”
Source: The Fall of Hyperion
“Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.”
“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.”
“Religion and ideology are two faces of the same Janus. Both lead to suppression of disagreement and hence become fossilized. Such fossilization leads to extreme reverence for the text and the increased authority of the written word, written in an age gone by so long ago that in the present it is clearly anachronistic.”
“Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.”
Source: Church and State in The United States: The American Idea of Religious Liberty and its Practical Effects
“Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.”
“Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.”
“Religion and mental health have always overlapped in their attempts to understand troubled minds. Is that voice divine revelation or auditory hallucination? Is ego dissolution mystical or pathological?”
“Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.”
“religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.”
Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures
“Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.”
“Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.”
“Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'”
“Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!”
“Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart”
Source: A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life
“Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.”
“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand”
“Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.”
Source: Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
“Religion and politics together is the most dangerous of all combinations, when that religion, is not the true religion of kindness and love, but the religion of books, doctrines and priests.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.”
“Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.”
“Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.”
“Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man”
Source: Religion and Science
“Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.”
Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays
“Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.”
“Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.”
Source: Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.”
“Religion and science look at reality differently.”
“Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.”
“Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.”
Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811
“Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany and Russia, both of which defined themselves as messianic nations. In both countries too, secular elites delved deeply into apocalyptic and prophetic ideas, giving their nations a millenarian bent.”
“Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.”
“Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.”
“Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.”
“Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.”
“Religion, as it is known in the western world in the 19th century, was male religion. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, though they may differed about what sacrament to take when or which day was actually the Sabbath, were in completed agreement on one subject - the status of women. Females were to be regarded as inferior creatures who were divinely intended to be obedient and silent vessels for the production of children and the pleasure and convenience of men. These attitudes not only thrived in the Church but found their way past those great arched doorways to install themselves in a more personal way into the thoughts, feelings and values of every Jewish, Christian or Mohammedan family.”
Source: When God Was A Woman
“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When Christian animal and environmental activists finally demand that their church be better stewards over the world, we will see change. Until then, one percent of sermons will teach parishioners about the importance of being stewards over our animals in a year. Mega churches and corporate religious empires will continue to own stock in companies that pollute our earth and exploit our animals. Ignorance and hypocrisy will continue to corrupt the pureness of the Gospel. From here, we will not be truly “saved” because we choose not to save ourselves.”
“Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.”
“Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.”
“Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.”