James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.