Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.