John Burroughs Quotes

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

Men create the gods in their own image.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Human beings are religious animals.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

We are religious by nature.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.