Quotes on Religious

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

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.

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

Masonry is not a religion._x000D_ He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can _x000D_ know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for _x000D_ mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do _x000D_ that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in _x000D_ a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, _x000D_ you cannot gain its value.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

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.

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.

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.

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.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.