| RELIGION See also:man a Religious Being | 宗教 |
| It is possible to be diligent in our religion yet
distant in our relationship. 我們有可能熱衷於宗教但人際關係卻是十分疏遠。 |
| It is religion without love
that has been responsible for most of the misery of the world. 沒有愛心的宗教該對世上大多數的不幸負責。 |
| Some people's religion is just like a wooden leg.
There is neither warmth nor life in it and although it helps you to hobble along it
never becomes part of you, but must be strapped on every morning. 許多人的宗教就像是義肢一樣。既不溫暖又無生命，縱使能幫助你蹣跚而行也永遠無法成為你的一部份，你必須每天早上重新繫上它。 |
| Nothing so tends to mask the
face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself. Martin Buber 再沒有比宗教那麼容易遮掩上帝的面容；它甚至可以成為上帝的代替品。 |
| If men are so wicked with religion, what would they
be without it? Benjamin Franklin 如果有宗教的人都這麼壞，那沒有宗教的人呢？ |
| Many Christians have enough
religion to make them decent, but not enough to make them dynamic. Kenneth Grider 許多基督徒有足夠的宗教讓他們循規蹈矩，但卻不夠讓他們活力充沛。 |
| God calls people to worship him with their
obedience, and instead they try to fob him with their religion. John Hercus 上帝呼召祂的百姓以順服敬拜祂，他們卻以自己的宗教矇騙祂。 |
| Religion is what keeps a
nation from chaos - from falling asunder like uncemented sand. A. A. Hodge 宗教讓一個國家不會變得一團糟 - 就像沒拌水泥的沙子一樣分崩離析。 |
| Religion's in the heart, not in the knee. Douglas Jerrold 宗教是在心裡而不是在膝蓋上。 |
| A life that will bear the
inspection of men and of God is the only certificate of true religion. Samuel Johnson 能夠承受人們及上帝察看的生命是真宗教的唯一證明。 |
| Formal religion always makes fertile soil for false
religion. Gilbert W. Kirby 形式化的宗教通常為虛偽的宗教預備沃土。 |
| The heart of religion lies
in its personal pronouns. Martin Luther 宗教的中心根基在它個人化的代名稱。（宗教是透過人際關係 - 你我他 - 表現出來） |
| A cheap religion is always a cheat religion. Thomas V. Moore 廉價的宗教通常是欺騙的宗教。 |
| There is nothing more
irreligious than self-absorbed religion. J. I. Packer 再沒有比專注於自己的宗教還不像宗教的了。 |
| Religion is union between God and the soul. Paul Sabatier 宗教是上帝與靈魂的聯合。 |
| The heart of religion is not
an opinion about God, but a personal relationship with him. W. E. Sangster 宗教的核心不是關於上帝的看法，而是個人與祂的關係。 |
| People can be inoculated against religion by small
injections of it. W. E. Sangster 人們能夠藉著注射一點宗教的疫苗而排斥宗教。 |
| No man's religion ever
survives his morals. Robert South 沒有一個屬於人的宗教能夠存留得比他的道德久遠。 |
| I would not give much for your religion unless it
can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. C. H. Spurgeon 除非你的宗教是看得見的，否則我不會太在乎它。燈不是談的，而是放出光亮。 |
| Religion is nothing if it is
not the foundation of our whole life. George Swinnock 如果宗教不是我們整個生命的基礎就毫無意義。 |
| No religion has ever been greater than its idea of
God. A. W. Tozer 沒有一個宗教大過這個宗教對神的觀念。 |
| You can find more carnal,
unregenerate, self-centred characters who have religion and are sensitive toward it than
you can bury in the Grand Canyon A. W. Tozer 你能找到許多肉欲橫流、沒有重生、自我中心的人相信宗教也對宗教甚感興趣，這樣的人簡直多得難以計算。 |
| Religion is the first and the last thing and until a
man has found God, and been found by God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end. H. G. Wells 宗教直到人尋到上帝並被上帝尋及的第一件事也是最後一件事，他沒有開始、也沒有結束。 |
| I won't take my religion
from any man who never works except with his mouth. Carl Sandburg 我不會從任何動口不動手的人得到我的宗教。 |
| Science without religion is lame, religion without
science is blind. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941 沒有宗教的科學是跛的，沒有科學的宗教是盲的。 |
| A little philosophy
inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to
religion. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) 一點哲學會讓人心傾向無神，但深入瞭解哲學卻會帶領人心接近宗教。 |
| Religion holds the solution to all problems of human
relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner
or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of
God. A. J. Toynbee 宗教持有解決一切人際問題的方法，無論那是親子或是國家之間的問題。人們遲早需要決定到底是要崇拜自己的力量或是上帝的力量。 |