religion 2 - worship - God
    

The heart of Religion is not an opinion about God,
such as  philosophy might reach as the conclusion
of an argument; it is a personal relationship with God.

William Temple
  

This is what I found out about religion: it gives you courage 
to make the decisions you must make in a crisis and the confidence
to leave the results to a higher Power. Only by trust in God
can a person carrying responsibility find repose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

      

Science and religion, religion and science, put it
as I may, they are two sides of the same glass,
through which we see darkly until these two,
focusing together, reveal the truth.

Pearl Buck

  

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the
meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers,
even if the answers hurt.

Paul Tillich


The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good.
All the rest is secondary.

Simone Weil

   

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty.
It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

   

The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans,
is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions,
against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others,
against every type of hatred and violence.

Pope John Paul II
   
  
  

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like
about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be
good and kind to person and beast, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell
  

Religion is never devoid of emotion,
any more than love is.  It is not a
defect of religion, but rather its glory,
that it speaks always the language of feeling.

Elton Trueblood
  
  
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

  

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein
  

  

People will wrangle for religion, write for it,
fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton
  

Religion should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire.

Charles L. Wheeler
  

God is alive in flowers and snowflakes, in sunsets and rainbows,
in the flash of lightning and the crash of thunder, in the calm
in the eye of the hurricane.  Wherever there is life there is God.
   God is not far off on a throne in the sky; He is alive today
in all men who walk the earth.  He is the life that surrounds
and penetrates us here and now.  God is alive in people. . . .
   God is not a static image; He lives in everything and everyone.
He is in the flight of an eagle and in the writing of a sonnet.
He is everywhere.  He is in the farthest star and the newborn baby.
He will survive the denial of men and the blast of nuclear destruction.
   Let us affirm the invincibility of God--for God is life eternal.

Wilferd A. Peterson
  
No person has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget
in one's own ease the service due one's neighbor; nor has any person
a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God.

St. Augustine
  
  

Religion exists not to answer all questions, or to clear up all mysteries;
if that were its purpose, it could never be accomplished, for life grows,
not less, but more mysterious as the intellect enters more fully into its truth. . .
Religion leaves a million questions unanswered and apparently unanswerable.
Its purpose and object is not to make people certain and cock-sure about everything,
but to make them certain about those things of which they must be certain
if they are to live a human life at all. Religion does not relieve us
from the duty of thought; it makes possible for a person to begin thinking.

G.A. Studdert-Kennedy

religion 2 - worship - God
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
  

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections,
feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess
an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind
that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Miguel de Unamuno
   

During the past thirty years, people from all civilized countries on the earth
have consulted me. Among all my patients in the second half of life--
that is to say, over thirty-five--there has not been one whose problem
in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he or she had lost that which
the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them
has been really healed who did not regain his or her religious outlook.

Carl Jung
 

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Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

The Bible
  

Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs.
The rituals and outward signs are not as important as
one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God,
not something to fight about.

Bernie Siegel
  

I also see the world of religion. I see some
of my brothers and sisters trying to
be religious without being fully human.
They seem a little rigid and narrow at
times, wanting to be holy, but not human.
They seem to be winning a place in heaven,
without realizing or enjoying the beauty
of earth. They keep the ten commandments,
but their observances look so joyless.
Such a world seems small
and the air in that world is stale.

John Powell, S.J.
  
 

True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.

J.F. Wright
 
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We have just enough religion to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Edwards
    

We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea,
the bellowing voice from heaven.  Instead we should be looking
at the ordinary day-by day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous.

M. Scott Peck