All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room — room for the human mind.”

“Knock, And He’ll open the doorVanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sunFall, And He’ll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

“I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.”

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

“Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”

“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”

“We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.”

“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

“Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.”