religious mindset Quotes

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.