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Religion Quotes by Huston Smith
- Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is…
- Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
- First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn…
- Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason…
- Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
- A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or…
- As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,…
- Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures…
- Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
- It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations…
- No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
More Religion Quotes
- 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