#religion

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#good #joke #religion #test #whether

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#conformist #get #getting #holidays #i

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#completely #exercised #fact #healthy #individual

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. ↗

— James Martineau

#language #more #music #poetry #possible

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. ↗

— James Martineau

#divine #god #holding #mankind #mind

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#coming #invade #life #pass #pretty

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#always #died #his #i #live

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#country #decay #general #generation #god

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. ↗

— Maria Monk

#around #doubts #experience #felt #give