Pastoral Resources

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.