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If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. – Francois Marie Arouet…
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By…
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.…
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. – Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and…
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and…
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don’t.
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll…
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. – C.S. Lewis
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground…
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of ’religion.’
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure…
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
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