“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?” IdeasCareReligiousPositionTheoryElementsEssenceConstitutionMereDrivenDoctrineDistinctionLatterSubordinates Author:William Ernest Hocking
“Other cars on the highway driven by believers will suddenly be out of control and stark pandemonium will occur on... every highway in the world where Christians are caught away from the drivers wheel.” WorldHumorChristianReligiousCarCaughtDrivenBelieverWheelsDriversHighwaysStarksPandemonium Author:Jerry Falwell
“The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.” PeopleFactsChristianJesusBeliefChristReligiousLinesMillionsCostConsequenceJesus ChristDollarsBottomDrivenStatementsSpiteSincereBottom LineCompulsionBelief In GodLashesDemonic Author:Michael Medved
“I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.” RealChristianBeliefReligiousStruggleRecordsPositionEnvironmentalDrivenSecretaryInteriors Author:James G. Watt
“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.” IfsHumansFeelingsProcessReligiousPoorSecurityHuman NatureIndustryBalanceLaborWorkersProductionsConvictionCustomersDrivenInventionSavingPoolCompellingDistributionMachinerySavingsUtopia Author:Samuel B. Pettengill
“It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.” WorldWarChristianEvilReligiousNumbersInfluenceDrivenConversionConclusionMelancholyEstablishmentPerpetualLooking Back Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky
“Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.” ThinkingHas BeensUniverseEvilReligiousMillionsTearsTerribleEternalWorshipMiseryDrivenPunishmentDoctrineInsanityDogmaAgonyDegradingInfamous Author:Robert Green Ingersoll