I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
