If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.
Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
Kindness is our religion.
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am. ' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram. . . he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
The best religion is the religion that brings you closest to God.
There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.