#religion

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#because #good #people #religion #some

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#concept #first #guy #i #out

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#catholic #i #jewish #my own #one-quarter

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#religion #nature

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer. ↗

— René Girard

#pragmatism #religion #technology #religion

Religion turned some folks belligerent. ↗

— Eileen Wilks

#religion

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#behind #comes #decrease #eat #followers

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England. ↗

— Paul Harris

#england #ever #militant #new #new england

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. ↗

— Paul Harris

#aid #bad #being #came #course

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. ↗

— Paul Harris

#possession #religion #right