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Times consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality but morality touched by emotion.
The truth of religion is in its ritual and the truth of dogma is in its poetry.
Whatever definitions men have given of religion, I find none so accurately descriptive of it as this: that it is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart and life.
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self and benevolence to men.
The religion of Christ reaches and changes the heart, which no other religion does.
Love God, and he will dwell with you. Obey God, and he will reveal to you the truth of his deepest teachings.
Christianity is the good man’s text; his life is the illustration. How admirable is that religion, which, while it seems to have in view only the felicity of another world, is at the same time the highest happiness of this.
Indisputably the believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have their reward hereafter; and if there be no hereafter, they can but be with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope through life, without subsequent disappointment.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is, that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy and considerable end of life to themselves.
Those who make religion to consists In the contempt of this world and its enjoyments, are under a very fatal and dangerous mistake. As life is the gift of heaven, it is religion to enjoy it. He, therefore, who can be happy in himself, and who contributes all in his power toward the happiness of others, answers most effectually the ends of his creation, is an honor to his nature, and a pattern to mankind.
The joy of religion is an exorcist to the mind; it expels the demons of carnel mirth and madness.
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind; admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
The contemplation of the Divine Being, and the exercise of virtue, are in their nature so far from excluding all gladness of heart, that they are perpetual sources of it. In a world, the true spirit of religion cheers as well as composes the soul. It banishes, indeed, all levity of behavior, all vicious and dissolute mirth, but in exchange fills the mind with a perpetual serenity, uninterrupted cheerfulness, and an habitual inclination to please others as well as to be pleased in itself.
If we were to be hired to religion, it is able to outbid the corrupted world with all it can offer us, being so much richer of the two in everything where reason is admitted to be a judge of the value.
True religion shows its influence in every part of our conduct; it is like the sap of living tree, which penetrates the most distant boughs.
What Dr.Arnold said about the class of young men who professed their sentimental admiration of virtue, applies well to older persons: “Commend me to those who not only love God, but who also hate the devil.”
All humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion, and when death has taken off the mask, they will know one another, thought the divers liveries they wear make them strangers.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality but morality touched by emotion.
The truth of religion is in its ritual and the truth of dogma is in its poetry.
Whatever definitions men have given of religion, I find none so accurately descriptive of it as this: that it is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart and life.
Cecil.
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self and benevolence to men.
Tryon Edwards.
The religion of Christ reaches and changes the heart, which no other religion does.
Howells.
Love God, and he will dwell with you. Obey God, and he will reveal to you the truth of his deepest teachings.
Robertson.
Christianity is the good man’s text; his life is the illustration. How admirable is that religion, which, while it seems to have in view only the felicity of another world, is at the same time the highest happiness of this.
Montesquieu.
Indisputably the believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have their reward hereafter; and if there be no hereafter, they can but be with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope through life, without subsequent disappointment.
Byron.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is, that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Chalmers.
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy and considerable end of life to themselves.
Tillotson.
Those who make religion to consists In the contempt of this world and its enjoyments, are under a very fatal and dangerous mistake. As life is the gift of heaven, it is religion to enjoy it. He, therefore, who can be happy in himself, and who contributes all in his power toward the happiness of others, answers most effectually the ends of his creation, is an honor to his nature, and a pattern to mankind.
Addison.
The joy of religion is an exorcist to the mind; it expels the demons of carnel mirth and madness.
Cecil.
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind; admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
Addison.
The contemplation of the Divine Being, and the exercise of virtue, are in their nature so far from excluding all gladness of heart, that they are perpetual sources of it. In a world, the true spirit of religion cheers as well as composes the soul. It banishes, indeed, all levity of behavior, all vicious and dissolute mirth, but in exchange fills the mind with a perpetual serenity, uninterrupted cheerfulness, and an habitual inclination to please others as well as to be pleased in itself.
Spectator.
If we were to be hired to religion, it is able to outbid the corrupted world with all it can offer us, being so much richer of the two in everything where reason is admitted to be a judge of the value.
Halifax.
True religion shows its influence in every part of our conduct; it is like the sap of living tree, which penetrates the most distant boughs.
What Dr.Arnold said about the class of young men who professed their sentimental admiration of virtue, applies well to older persons: “Commend me to those who not only love God, but who also hate the devil.”
All humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion, and when death has taken off the mask, they will know one another, thought the divers liveries they wear make them strangers.
Penn.
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