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• The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always “work”, and beliefs that “work” are by no means always true.

  John Warwick Montgomery

  Topics in Religion

• I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  Carl Sandburg

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Authority

• We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Topics in Religion

• A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

  Denis Diderot

  Topics in Religion

• A person has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it, and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Religion

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

• Mankind has always been but one humanity. We still are. It may even be prophesied that we probably always will be. Our great problem is and has been for ages, how to live with each other, with our fellow human beings. Religion in its core is what Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu and all the other sages have declared it to be: loving one another.

  Kenneth Patton

  Topics in Religion

• A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

  James Feibleman

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth

• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people… and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth

• But we must not forget… this ritual expressed… certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.

  William Robertson Smith

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Ethics

• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Religion

• The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Religion

• Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Religion

• Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Religion

• A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Religion

• I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Topics in Power, Religion

  Tags in Feminism, Injustice, Authority

• Truth is my God. Nonviolence is my way of realizing Him.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Topics in Religion

• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism

• You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Leadership, Politics, Religion

  Tags in Government, Meditation, Mindfulness