Religion

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.