#religion

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#history #lincoln #religion

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#every #influence #over #pure #reason

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#army #church #had #indian #individualist

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#enable #force #his #impose #must

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #i am #literature #politics #religion

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#course #government #must #neutrality #pursue

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #certainly #cultivate #grow #grow up