Decline Quote by Roger Babson

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Faith is the refusal to panic.

— Anonymous

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of…

— George Eliot

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask…

— Denis Diderot

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

— Max Weber

“The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence…

— Mircea Eliade

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

— Sun Myung Moon

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth.…

— John Wesley

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

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

— Anonymous