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Religion Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
- Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
- One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
- Theology is only thought applied to religion.
- A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who…
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
- A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
- For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image…
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following…
- Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
- I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
- Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion…
- Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important…
- Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi