#religion

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believes #best #counterproductive #demands #economics

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#cannot #like #partnership #religion #sanction

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#believe #endowed #feel #forgo #god

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#conduct #element #important #laws #mundane

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blessed #christian #christianity #disciple #divine

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. ↗

— James Larkin

#avenue #book #closed #freedom #live