Religious Duality Quotes

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.