Jock Stein Quotes

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

The answer to bad religion is not secularism. It’s better religion.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.

Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

Religion will never show the way.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.