Max Lerner Quotes

I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

I regret my disbelief in God.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

Religion: Together we can find the cure.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

I really believe that God builds all the bridges, writes all the books, and delivers all the speeches. When I say God, again, I mean that source we all come from, we all are pieces of, and we all are connected to.

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

I'm a Mormon, but I share your faith in the atonement of the savior, Jesus Christ. In my faith, we have a guy who gave his life for what he believed in. You don't have to believe it; I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you, "What is it that you believe? Are you willing to give your life?"

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.