William Robertson Smith Quotes

George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order ...

Religion is the anchor of morality for most people.

Protestant Christianity ... tutored the first generations of Americans. It provided what we today would call the value system of the society.

It is the right and duty of all men publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being.

In the most ancient civilizations there is no distinction between the political or social and the religious …. The social festivals were as much religious as they were political. Political and religious functions were necessarily united in the same persons since every religions act was political, every political act also religious

Religion does not require women to veil their hands, feet and faces or enjoin any special type of veil. Tribal custom must not impose itself on the free will of the individual

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

Culture is another dimension.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.