Concern Quote by William Ames

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal…

— Laurence Sterne

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains…

— Paul Tillich

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

— Saint Augustine

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

— William James

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

— Sean Stone

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance…

— Radhanath Swami

Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special…

— William Godwin

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

— Immanuel Kant

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

— Carl Jung

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by…

— Blaise Pascal

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that…

— David Hume

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we…

— Christopher Hitchens