Pastoral Resources

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

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

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

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

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

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

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

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

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.