“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindUseEarthLyingReligionChristianityKindnessSawsGoodnessBenefitsCapacityDirectCreatorProofTendernessLiving ThingsEndowment Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.” IfsFeelingsReligionThreeFoundHeavenReligiousTheoryDirectCharitySensibilitySublimeRatiosFaith HopeReligious HistoryFaith Hope And Charity Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.” GivingFirstsReligionSkyGiving UpDirectAbsolutesOriginalsSeparationPhrasesRepublicAmendmentsCurrencyNot Giving UpViolationFirst AmendmentDo Not Give UpGod We Trust Author:Gore Vidal
“The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.” WorldTodaySpiritReligionReligiousAirLandDirectClaimsCornersBreatheAccessRighteousnessTotalitarianismBigotsHeyday Author:Sonia Johnson
“It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.” ShouldMayReligionDirectSaintAccessAbsurdAlmightyClergy Author:Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks