Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Faith is important to me.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Humanity is the child of religion.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.