Pastoral Resources

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.