Quotes About Corrupt Religion

#1. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over.

Andrew James Pritchard

#3. The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

Carl Jung

#4. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)

Iain Pears

#5. Where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.

John Calvin

#6. 27Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

Anonymous

#7. That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Hall Caine

#8. The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion ... but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

J.R. Miller

#9. If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#10. How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

Marquis De Sade

#11. It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine

#12. The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

Joseph McCabe

#13. Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#14. Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

George Agnew Reid

#15. If everyone was perfect then I am pretty sure I would be perfect.

Brian Randleas

#16. The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Blaise Pascal

#17. Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Eric Hoffer

#18. One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

Corita Kent

#19. Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

Jackie French

#20. Regret comes late. Don't wait for him!

Toba Beta

#21. The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.

Vitor Belfort

#22. The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Tryon Edwards

#23. I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

Richard Gere

#24. We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.

Sue Grafton

#25. The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Thomas Paine