Religion
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Aristotle
God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
- Berdyaev, Nicholas
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
- Bruno, Giordano
It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
- Burke, Edmund
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.
- Burke, Edmund
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- Christ, Jesus
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
- Cowper, William
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
- Crane, Stephen
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...
- Dhammapada, The
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
- Diderot, Denis
I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light.
- Divine Pymander, The
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
- Ellis, Havelock
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
- Epictetus
All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Frederick II
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
- Harrington, James
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
- Harrison, Frederic
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
- Heine, Heinrich
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
- Hugo, Victor
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
- Jefferson, Thomas
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
- Joubert, Joseph
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
- La Bruyere, Jean
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
- La Bruyere, Jean
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
- Montaigne, Michel De
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
- Pandita, Saskya
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
- Pike, Albert
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
- Plutarch
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
- Ramakrishna
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
- Russell, Bertrand
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
- Santayana, George
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- Seneca
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Sivananda
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
- Voltaire
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
- Voltaire
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
- Voltaire
That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
- Yen, Lu
