Quotations on Religion

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

Einstein

 

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Einstein

 

The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

Einstein

 

Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself as something wholy different from the profane ...the history of religions...is constituted by a great number of ..manifestations of sacred realities. ...in each case we are confronted by the same mysterious act-- the manifestation of something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural "profane" world.

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane

 

Good work and religion are one.

Elbert Hubbard

 

Pope Julius was right-- work is religion when you put your soul into your task.

Elbert Hubbard

 

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

George Meredith

 

It is in the giving up of self that human beings can find the most ecstatic and lasting, solid, durable joy of life. And it is death that provides life with all its meaning. This "secret" is the central wisdom of religion.

M. Scott Peck, TRLT

 

It seems the more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Will Rogers

 

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Albert Schweitzer

 

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

Swift

 

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Zangwill, ib.

 

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

--Peggy Noonan , speech writer for presidents Reagan and Bush, 1996

 

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

--Benjamin Franklin

 

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

--Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

--Madame de Sta

Authors Bio:

One theme has run through my work for the past 40 plus years-- a desire to play a role in waking people up, raising their consciousness and empowering them.
I was the organizer founder of the Winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology and StoryCon Meetings and president of Futurehealth, Inc., with interests in Positive Psychology as well as being involved in the field of biofeedback/neurofeedback since 1972.
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