Will Durant Quotes

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.

Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.