Communism introduced into the
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. Ezra Taft Benson
True Religion
True religion always moves
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom. Erwin McManus
Never has any one
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has … Read more
If religion is only
If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true. Emile Chartier
There are random moments
There are random moments – tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children’s rooms – when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This … Read more
All natural results are
All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,–as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The body of all
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. Edmund Burke
True religion is the
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. Edmund Burke
To be a religions
To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God … Read more
True religion is the
True religion is the realization of truth. Franz Hartmann