Best religion & social Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

Made Lying Religion Social Church Sin Christianity Tasks Empty Lips Lawyer Cruelty Made It Hypocrisy Sinner Avarice Cloaks Rite Misers Immunity Deference Lip Service

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”

“Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.”

Men Giving Feelings Religion Social Religious Wise Institutions Improvement Devotion Rational Promotion Profitable Social Being

Book:Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture

Source: Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture

“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.”

Ends Law Religion Social Differences Fiction Aim Monstrosity

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.”

Together Religion Strong Social Liberty Backbone Pedestal Social Systems Granite Mortar

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.”

God Religion Social Religious Ultimate Structure Gender Having Fun Sexism Unjust Masculinity Social Structure

Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

“Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.”

Political Religion Social Religious Fuel Dictatorship Desperation Hopelessness Neglected Extremism Religious Extremism Political Extremism

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

Wells Littles War Bigs Religion Politics Social History Blood Economic Tiny All Time Bloody Economic Systems

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].”

“The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.”

Firsts Persons Important Religion Social Creative Rights Conditions Serious Speech Constitution Setting Settings Alternatives Guarantees Amendments First Amendment Social Conditions

Book:Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock

Source: Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock

“The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.”

World Different Religion Social Religious Function Strategy Killing Individuality Valuable Quitting Someday Luminous Killing Each Other

Book:The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

Source: The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

“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.”

Humans Government Religion Social Virtue Morality Foundation Combination Human Society Felicity Free Government Republicanism

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

“One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”

Religion Evil Social Responsible Testament New Testament Anti Semitism Social Evils

Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.”

World Giving Country Religion Social Term Wealth Levels Atheism Program Aids Developing Welfare Percentages Charitable High Level Social Welfare Welfare Programs

Author:Sam Harris

“You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.”

Problem Political Religion Social Interest Leader Fields Illusion Wide Priests Serving Exaggerated Political Leaders

Author:Pope John Paul II

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

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