Quotes on Religion

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.