Pastoral Resources

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

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

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.