#religion

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#church #devil #god #religion #science

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#frozen #man #out #religion #temples

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the light that they gave to the world, was not IN them, but OUTSIDE them. Our Divine Lord, however, identified Divine Wisdom with Himself. It was the first time in history that it was ever done, and it has never been done since. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus #morality #religion #life

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. ↗

— Irving Kristol

#crucial role #moral #need #nothing #people

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#religion #satire #religion

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#behave #believe #cease #effect #great

The public highways, which had been constructed for the use of the legions, opened an easy passage for the Christians missionaries from Damascus to Corinth, and from Italy to the extremity of Spain or Britain; nor did those spiritual conquerors encounter any of the obstacles which usually retard or prevent the introduction of a foreign religion into a distant country. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#religion

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions. ↗

— Hans Kung

#fact #matter #religions #truth #you

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. ↗

— Hans Kung

#including #misused #often #purely #religion

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human