Charles Eastman Quotes

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Our belief is that the continued rule is a destruction of God’s religion even if they pretend to uphold Islam. We ask God to relieve us of them all… These rulers have subjected Muslims to their interests and made religion into a way of acquiring their materialistic interests. They have brought upon the Muslims all evil and corruption.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Who goes to church against his will come home accursed.

There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

This people [the Puritans], who in England could not bear being chastised with rods, had no sooner got free from their fetters than they scourged their fellow refugees [Quakers] with scorpions; though the absurdity, as well as the injustice of such a proceeding in them might stare them in the face!

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

The Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.