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Quotations from the Wayside
Religion isn’t worshipping what the prophets did, but doing what the
prophets worshipped.
WILLIAM E. ALBERTS
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The ideal in religion is to establish the proper balance between mind and
emotion.
WALDEMAR ARGOW
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
KARL BARTH
Man cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human.
MARTIN BUBER
Prayer does not change things; prayer changes people, and people change things.
LON RAY CALL
Worship is the supreme art of guiding the loyalty of the people.
STANTON COIT
In religion, as in everything else, survival is assured only by change.
HARVEY COX
Religion is indebted to the great doubters as well as to the great believers.
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS
The method of Jesus is to work from within outward.
WILLIAM WALLACE FENN
Religion is something you do, not something you wait for.
CHARLES G. FINNEY
I do not know any religion apart from human activity.
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
Religion is a response to life, not a description of it.
LAUREL HALLMAN
It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
All great prayer is born out of intense earnestness.
RUFUS M. JONES
He who is faithful in a very little, is faithful also in much.
LUKE 16:10
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
The real enemy of religion is indifference and cynicism.
TOMAS MASARYK
Prayer . . . doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, it doesn’t pollute.
MARGARET MEAD
Give them, not Hell, but hope and courage.
JOHN MURRAY
Prophets of religion are always martyred by the religious, rather than the
irreligious.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
LOUIS NIZER
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
THOMAS PAINE
To worship the prophet is simply an easy substitute for doing what the prophet
asks.
CHARLES PARK
We can never be better for our religion if our neighbor be worse for it.
WILLIAM PENN
The aim of religion is not to get us into Heaven, but to get Heaven into
us.
ULYSSES G. B. PIERCE
Religion is goodness with its sleeves rolled up.
MAGNUS RATTER
All profound religion is mystical.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Worship is awe in the presence of majesty.
CLARENCE R. SKINNER
Religion’s glory is the glory of worship.
WILLARD L. SPERRY
All religion is an adventure in courage.
FREYA STARK
It is by no means true that any religion is better than none.
ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM TEMPLE
My religion is the answer to the question which I am.
PAUL TILLICH
Being religious is being unconditionally concerned whether in secular matters
or religious.
PAUL TILLICH
Prayer is the sign that one is not alone.
PAUL TOURNIER
Religion without a great hope would be like an altar without a living fire.
HENRY VAN DYKE
Thinking that the guy up ahead knows what he is doing is the most dangerous
religion.
KURT VONNEGUT
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