Pastoral Resources

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Religion is induced insanity.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.