Atheism Quote by Charles Eliot Norton

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas…

— Edith Hamilton

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler…

— Emile Durkheim

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors -…

— Bruce Feiler

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

— Alexander Schmemann

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

— Ronald Knox

There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

— Richard Rohr

The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it…

— Anonymous

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.…

— Dalai Lama