Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

I believe religion is important for every person.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

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

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

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.

The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I don't think you need religion.

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 am a religious person and rely heavily on prayers.

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

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

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

There is a very easy remedy. That is to pray ourselves.

Believing in God was something I took as much for granted as the air I breathed. Religion wasn't something that came out of a box on Sunday.