Religion Quotes by Wendell Berry

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

— Wendell Berry

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

— Wendell Berry

“Jesus' military career has never compelled my belief.”

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“This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.”

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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter…

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“What I know of spirit is astir in the world. The god I have always expected to appear at the woods' edge,…

— Wendell Berry

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes,…

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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of…

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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their…

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“Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I…

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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've…

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People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We…

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You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach…

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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the…

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“But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat,…

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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,…

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I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as…

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Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because…

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“The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But…

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“I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints…

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“The encrusted religious structure is not changed by its institutional dependents--they are part of the crust. It is changed by one who…

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“I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels…

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As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found…

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“As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be…

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“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either…

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“In Port William, more than anyplace else I had been, this religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was…

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“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for…

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“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood…

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“For a long time then I seemed to live by the slender thread of faith, spun out from within me. From this…

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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive…

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Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the…

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“Invariably the failure of organized religions, by which they cut themselves off from mystery and therefore from sanctity, lies in the attempt…

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The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to…

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“Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of…

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