Pastoral Resources

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.