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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)
- Anti-Religion
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only ‘mouth honour’ and that decreasingly.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963They Asked for a Paper
- Christianity
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Christianity
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797
My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine1737–1809The Age of Reason (1794), Part I (1794), 1. The Author’s Profession of Faith
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (11 August 1928)
- Christianity
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Anti-Christ
- Christianity
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maherborn 1956Be More Cynical (2000)
- Christianity
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde1928–2023The Merry Book of Christmas
- Children
- Christianity
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Christianity
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of ‘religion.’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
- Christianity