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The
heart of Religion is not an opinion about God,
such as philosophy
might reach as the conclusion
of an argument; it is a personal relationship with God.
William
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We have been looking
for the burning bush, the parting of the sea,
the
bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking
at the ordinary day-by day events in our lives for
evidence of the miraculous.
M.
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Religion
is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is.
It is
not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,
that it
speaks always the language of feeling.
Elton Trueblood
The
church must be reminded that it is not
the master or the
servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the
state.
Martin
Luther
King, Jr.
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Pope John Paul II
The only struggle which religions can
justify, the only struggle worthy of humans,
is the moral
struggle against humanity's own disordered passions,
against
every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress
others,
against every type of hatred and violence. |
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Anna Sewell
There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as they like
about their
religion, but if it does not teach them to be
good and
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This is what I found
out about religion: it gives you courage
to make the
decisions you must make in a crisis and the confidence
to
leave the results to a higher Power. Only by trust in God
can a person carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight
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Being religious means asking passionately
the question of the meaning of our existence and being
willing to receive answers,
even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich |
Science
and religion, religion and science, put it as I may, they
are two sides of the same glass, through which we see
darkly until these two, focusing together, reveal the
truth.
Pearl Buck |
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Albert Einstein
Science without religion is
lame,
religion without science is blind. |
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The
essential thing to know about God is that God is Good.
All the rest is secondary. |
Simone
Weil |
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People
will wrangle for religion, write for it,
fight for it,
die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton |
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L. Wheeler
Religion
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God is alive in
flowers and snowflakes, in sunsets and rainbows,
in the
flash of lightning and the crash of thunder, in the calm
in the eye of the hurricane. Wherever there is life there
is God.
God is not far off on a throne in the sky;
He is alive today
in all men who walk the earth. He is
the life that surrounds
and penetrates us here and now.
God is alive in man. . . .
God is not a static image; He lives in
everything and everyone.
He is in the flight of an eagle
and in the writing of a sonnet.
He is everywhere. He is
in the farthest star and the newborn baby.
He will
survive the denial of men and the blast of nuclear
destruction.
Let us affirm the invincibility of God--for
God is life eternal.
Wilferd
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No person has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as
to forget
in one's own ease the service due one's neighbor;
nor has any person
a right to be so immersed in active life
as to neglect the contemplation of God.
St. Augustine |
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G.A.
Studdert-Kennedy
Religion exists not to
answer all questions, or to clear up all mysteries;
if
that were its purpose, it could never be accomplished,
for life grows,
not less, but more mysterious as the
intellect enters more fully into its truth. . .
Religion
leaves a million questions unanswered and apparently
unanswerable.
Its purpose and object is not to make people certain and cock-sure about everything,
but to make
them certain about those things of which they must be certain
if they
are to live a human life at all. Religion does not
relieve us
from the duty of thought; it makes possible
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I would rather live in a world where
my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so
small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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I believe
in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the
breath of His affections,
feel His invisible hand,
drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess
an
inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a
universal mind
that marks out for me the course of my own
destiny.
Miguel de Unamuno |
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| C.G. Jung
During the past thirty
years, people from all civilized countries on the earth
have consulted me. Among all my patients in the second
half of life--
that is to say, over thirty-five--there has
not been one whose problem
in the last resort was not
that of finding a religious outlook on life.
It is safe
to say that every one of them fell ill because he had
lost that which
the living religions of every age have
given to their followers, and none of them
has been
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things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if
there be any praise, think on these things.
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Love
and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs.
The
rituals and outward signs are not as important as
one's
actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God,
not
something to fight about.
Bernie Siegel
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I also see the world of religion.
I see some
of my brothers and sisters trying to
be
religious without being fully human.
They seem a little
rigid and narrow at
times, wanting to be holy, but not
human.
They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without
realizing or enjoying the beauty
of earth. They keep the
ten commandments,
but their observances look so joyless.
Such a world seems small
and the air in that world is
stale.
John Powell,
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Religion
has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty.
It
survives on the level of activities rather than
in the stillness of
commitment.
Abraham
Joshua Heschel |
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| True religion is the life
we live, not the creed we profess.
J.F.
Wright |
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