Religion In Modern Society Quotes

#1. The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest it is that it should flourish.

Armin Vambery

#3. Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus

Paul David Tripp

#5. The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

Stewart Udall

#6. I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well

Alice Hoffman

#7. Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Honore De Balzac

#8. I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

L.J.Smith

#9. Being in the country is like being in a dream - one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all - that strange human creature that is me, one among all.

Meia Geddes

#10. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Odin Zeus McGaffer

#11. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Bryant McGill

#12. A person's never too old for stories, Bill. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.

Stephen King

#13. The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,
And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same.

Adhish Mazumder

#14. I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#15. My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#16. Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.

Iain Reid

#17. Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Lynda Obst

#18. Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Will Herberg