Pastoral Resources

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

We need a new religion.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The world is my country, science is my religion.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.