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“Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“Religion, like art, is an attempt to deal with the non-rational. That's not irrational. Non-rational. Those powerful forces that inform all of our lives. Love, beauty, the search for meaning, our mortality, grief, alienation, these cannot be empirically measured. It's why Freud said he could never finally write about love. He could write about sex, but he couldn't write about love and religious systems are human creations. God is a human concept. All religious systems are flawed. All of them are finite attempts to deal with the infinite. To deal with those transcendent forces and the need the human beings have for the sacred. And I think art and early religious life, art and religion were not divorced. I think art itself is a religious ritual, certainly an important ritual, and what art and religion are trying to do is acknowledge, preserve, and to a certain extent, explain these forces that make up a complete human being. And I think that is probably one of the great failings of the new atheists and that they don't distinguish between the non-rational and the irrational.”
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or which deity works for whom. Sincere religion and tested science are similar in that their assertions can be argued logically and objectively; otherwise, we get false cults and babble.”
Source: Killosophy
“Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.”
Source: God is Not Great
“Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.”
“Religion made us turn a reminder to a recital.”
“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”
“Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.”
“Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.”
“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.”
Source: Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.”
“Religion manifests within this life. After death there is nothing. This human being is transformed into God within this life. God is within this human body and nowhere else.”
“Religion maps social space and distinguishes us and them. It says the folks over the mountain have less powerful gods and less efficacious rituals. But even in one place, a religious worldview suggests, not everyone has the same status.”
Source: Religion: A Very Short Introduction
“Religion mattered at a deep level, which must help to explain why none of these people went over to Islam; but in most cases it did not direct their lives, nor did it prevent some of them from cultivating their connection with a powerful relative who was a Muslim convert. Whilst the fact that they were Catholics from one of Christendom’s frontier zones may have given them an enhanced sense of their Catholicism, the fact that they were Albanians, connected by language, blood and history to Ottoman subjects and Ottoman territory, gave them an ability to see things also from something more like an Ottoman perspective”
Source: Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
“Religion may be defined as that which puts first things first.”
Illustrated London News, April 26, 1930”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 12: The Father Brown Stories, Volume I
“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”
Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
“Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.”
Source: Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion
“Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.”
“Religion may give you something to believe in, and even something to do. But in the end it is not enough. We do not need 'something' as desperately as we need 'Someone.' We need more than religion. We need Christ - Christ within us, the hope of glory. We need more than religion. We need a living relationship with the Son of God - a daily communion, a close walk, a life of love.”
“Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.”
“Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.”
Source: The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity
“Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
“Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.”
“Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.”
“Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.”
Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman
“Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.”
“Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself.”
“Religion means to search eternal element with deluded assertion, while this (akram vignan) is a science.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Religion might make us love God
but there is nothing stronger than religion
to make us despise man and hate humankind.”
Source: 2084: La fin du monde
“Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.”
“Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.”
“Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.”
Source: A Voice from the South
“Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Religion must be maintained in moderation at all costs. Because it's not good when the state is at war or at peace. The physical training of soldiers, not salvation, is necessary at all times.”
“Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.”
“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.”
“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.”
“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”
“Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.”
“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”
Source: Billy Sunday speaks
“Religion needs people,
but
people didn't need religion to live.”
“Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.”
“Religion, nor biology would allow him, to do so.”
“religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.”
“Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!”
“Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.”