Quotes on Religion

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.