Pastoral Resources

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.