William Penn Quotes

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

There are, in every society, rules of conduct, and practices of life, which the progress of events has gradually marked out, and general observance hallowed. Of these, some are founded on the principles of morality and religion, some on caprice, some on prejudice. The breaking of any of them is always esteemed a crime against society.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and sense of responsibility with or without religion.

For the majority of mankind, religion is a habit, or, more precisely, tradition is their religion. Though it seems strange, I think that the first step to moral perfection is your liberation from the religion in which you were raised. Not a single person has come to perfection except by following this way.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing to do with anarchical activity, and classical mountaineering is a completely anarchical activity.

My faith dictates a whole lot of what I'll do.

God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.

So much wrong could religion induce.

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.