Druett Religion Quotes

#1. Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. #Quote by Tom Robbins

#2. The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. #Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

#3. If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality. #Quote by Adolf Loos

#4. God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. #Quote by C.S. Lewis

#5. Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity. #Quote by Karen L. Garst

#6. From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. #Quote by Swami Vivekananda

#7. The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said.
"Nothing about religion is simple. #Quote by Frank Herbert

#8. Honorable men were keeping their word, my son, long before this Christian religion was proposed. #Quote by Lloyd C. Douglas

#9. Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence. #Quote by Patrick Chappatte

#10. He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men's feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart. #Quote by Guru Arjan Dev

#11. Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to the world as something sacred is by renewing our sense of wonder. That's why I'm so opposed to the kind of miracle-mongering we find in both new-age and old-age religion. We're attracted to pseudomiracles only because we've ceased to wonder at the world, at how amazing it is. #Quote by Sam Keen

#12. Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition, and, unless a person is resolved, it can only be a matter of time before it resurfaces, often with a vengeance. On this account, loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of meaning from the universe, an absence that is all the more glaring in modern societies which have sacrificed traditional and religious structures of meaning on the thin altar of truth. #Quote by Neel Burton

#13. The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search. #Quote by Swami Vivekananda

#14. It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#15. Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#16. [The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."
What do you mean?"
Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other'
it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists ... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that. #Quote by Geraldine Brooks

#17. The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson

#18. Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it. #Quote by Carl Lotus Becker

#19. At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge. #Quote by Charles Hard Townes

#20. The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. #Quote by Chinua Achebe

#21. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect. #Quote by Dalai Lama

#22. Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenents of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand yearsm have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them. #Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#23. Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. #Quote by Stevie Smith

#24. It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another. #Quote by Joseph Pearce

#25. Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent. #Quote by Reza Aslan

#26. Krister Stendhal, a Lutheran minister and Harvard University Dean gave these rules of Religious understanding for reporters to use when they are reporting on a religion.

Stendahl's Three Rules of Religious Understanding

(1) When you are trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of that religion and not its enemies.

(2) Don't compare your best to their worst.

(3) Leave room for "holy envy." (By this Stendahl meant that you should be willing to recognize elements in the other religious tradition or faith that you admire and wish could, in some way, be reflected in your own religious tradition or faith.) #Quote by Kristner Stendhal

#27. The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted. #Quote by Henry Steele Commager

#28. When you realise that no one had a Bible in the whole Bible. You will come to understand why the devil laughs at those who are repelling him with a cross drawn on the Bible. In short, he met Jesus himself in person! #Quote by Mwanandeke Kindembo

#29. Now, religion professes a special role in the protection and instruction of children. "Woe to him," says the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, "who harms a child." The New Testament has Jesus informing us that one so guilty would be better off at the bottom of the sea, and with a millstone around his neck at that. But both in theory and in practice, religion uses the innocent and the defenseless for the purposes of experiment. By all means let an observant Jewish adult male have his raw-cut penis placed in the mouth of a rabbi. (That would be legal, at least in New York.) By all means let grown women who distrust their clitoris or their labia have them sawn away by some other wretched adult female. By all means let Abraham offer to commit filicide to prove his devotion to the Lord or his belief in the voices he was hearing in his head. By all means let devout parents deny themselves the succor of medicine when in acute pain and distress. By all means - for all I care - let a priest sworn to celibacy be a promiscuous homosexual. By all means let a congregation that believes in whipping out the devil choose a new grown-up sinner each week and lash him until he or she bleeds. By all means let anyone who believes in creationism instruct his fellows during lunch breaks. But the conscription of the unprotected child for these purposes is something that even the most dedicated secularist can safely describe as sin. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#30. I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life. #Quote by Alan M. Dershowitz

#31. Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean. #Quote by Jonathan Sacks

#32. Instead of practicing philoxenos, which means loving the stranger, we find many times that the church is xenophobic. We forget that Jesus, whom we claim to follow, was the ultimate lover of otherness in people. Even differences in religion didn't freak Jesus out when it came to loving people. #Quote by Holly Sprink

#33. How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise. #Quote by Marylinne Robinson

#34. When our spirit departs, we will transit into the next world. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit. #Quote by Lawrence Wright

#36. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. #Quote by H.L. Mencken

#37. There were once again believers, who this time were unwilling to work on Sundays. (They had introduced the five-and the six-day week.) And there were collective farmers sent up for sabotage because they refused to work on religious feast days, as had been their custom in the era of individual farms.
And, always, there were those who refused to become NKVD informers. (Among them were priests who refused to violate the secrecy of the confessional, for the Organs had very quickly discovered how useful had very quickly discovered how useful it was to learn the content of confessions - the only use they found for religion.)
And members of non-Orthodox sects were arrested on an ever-wider scale.
And the Big Solitaire game with the socialists went on and on. #Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#38. Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. #Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

#39. Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live. #Quote by Jim Palmer

#40. Everyone is somebody's atheist. #Quote by Michael A. Wood Jr.

#41. Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life. #Quote by Benjamin Haydon

#42. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. #Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte