Edmund Waller Quotes

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

God is such a good God.

I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.