The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
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