Form Quote by Nathanael Emmons

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

— Nathanael Emmons

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to…

— Louis Finkelstein

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which perhaps existed…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all…

— Beatrix Potter

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable…

— Thomas Carlyle

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

— Swami Vivekananda

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion…

— Karen Armstrong

“forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. They are always ready to…

— Frederick Douglass

“The only two useful art forms are religion and stories.”

— Stephen King

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

— Wendy Kaminer

“Godliness is a devotion to God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita