Religion Quotes
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Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it. (Quote by - Philip Larlcin)
The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Music is my religion. (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)
Isn't it strange that people place so much emphasis upon going to church when there is not one command from Jesus to do so, and yet neglect the basic duties of our ordinary life which are commanded on every page of the Gospels? —William Law)
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. (Quote by - E. M. Bounds)
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. (Quote by - Ernestine Rose)
Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
All religions die of one disease - that of being found out. (Quote by - John Morley)
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas- uncertainty, progress, change- into crimes. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. (Quote by - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk)
A cult is a religion with no political power. (Quote by - Tom Wolfe)
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Be careful your head doesn't grow faster than your heart. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I'm religiously opposed to religion. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge. (Quote by - William James)
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. (Quote by - Anne Lamott)
If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank. (Quote by - Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. (Quote by - Carl Sandberg)
Seven sins of life: Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Wealth without work. Education without character. Science without humanity. Pleasure without conscience. Worship without sacrifice. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. (Quote by - Gerard de Nerval)
Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -human religion (Quote by - but any number of faiths. (Quote by - Gandhi)
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. (Quote by - James Madison)
As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. (Quote by - Jesse Ventura)
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
Well! Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a snug little property (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)
All I know is this works. It's not only worked for me, but I've seen it work for literally thousands and thousands of people. I have seen the transformation on people's faces when they receive Christ. I've seen the glory come on them, the light. (Quote by - Joyce Meyer)
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Jesus was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday. We can therefore assume that when he returns again it will also be on a bank holiday. (Quote by - P. G. Johnson)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so. (Quote by - Charles J. Ingersoll)
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth. (Quote by - Wilfred Grenfell)
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. (Quote by - David Hume)
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We are punished by our sins, not for them. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. (Quote by - Sir Julian Huxley)
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. (Quote by - Karl Barth)
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small. (Quote by - J. B. Phillips)
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
But in the end all religions tend to point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Everywhere the apostle Paul went, he either had a revival, or he had a riot. Sometimes he a revival and a riot. That's what I want to be said of me. (Quote by - Wade Akins)
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. (Quote by - Dennis Miller)
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. (Quote by - D H Lawrence)
All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. (Quote by - James Martineau)
His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis )
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism 'religion caricatured,' which is a full definition in a word. (Quote by - James Parton)
As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. (Quote by - Stendhal)
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion. (Quote by - Mike Schmidt)
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs. (Quote by - Richard Taylor)
What has religion to do with facts? Nothing. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. (Quote by - George Santayana)
We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion! (Quote by - David Beckham)
A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.' (Quote by - James Hines)
Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more. (Quote by - John Bledsoe)
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. (Quote by - Paul Bert)
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. (Quote by - Dave Barry )
All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. (Quote by - Frederick the Great)
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. (Quote by - Tom Robbins)
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
A good life is the only religion. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
He that hath no cross deserves no crown. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. (Quote by - James Feibleman)
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
God has no religion. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Religion is as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of a rope. (Quote by - Unknown)
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, That maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after every swarm its own. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story. (Quote by - Jack Welch)
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. (Quote by - Saki)
I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens. (Quote by - Ian Stewart)
Such evil deeds could religion prompt. (Quote by - Lucretius)
Religion stinks of death. (Quote by - Gary Amirault)
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll )
I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. (Quote by - Montgomery Burns)
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. (Quote by - Steven Weinberg)
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. (Quote by - Frederick Buechner)
Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from. (Quote by - John Erskine)
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions. (Quote by - Elayne Boosler)
No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. (Quote by - William Ernest Hocking)
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. (Quote by - Paul Tournier)
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well. (Quote by - Rev. George Carey)
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer )
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. (Quote by - Madalyn Murray O'Hair)
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted. (Quote by - Ira Glasser)
When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. (Quote by - Emo Philips)
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard )
I do benefits for all religions. ... I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws. (Quote by - Thomas Broughton)
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.(Quote by - Abraham Joshua Heschel)
When something good happens, it's a miracle, and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later. (Quote by - Marshall Brickman)
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking. (Quote by - Dean William R. Inge)
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions. (Quote by - Sri Ramakrishna)
Men rarely (if ever) invent gods superior to themselves. Most gods have the morals and manners of a spoiled child. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. (Quote by - Frederick II)
A man without a religion is like a ship without a rudder. (Quote by - M.K. Gandhi)
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?- Katherine Whitehorn, British Journalist, The Observer, May 20, 1979)
For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got angry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda )
People in religions are too busy doing their thing to even notice that God is doing His. (Quote by - Martin Zender)
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. (Quote by - John Wesley)
The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts. (Quote by - John Ayscough)
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism. (Quote by - John Haynes Holmes)
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John. (Quote by - Dallin H. Oakes)
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. (Quote by - Hal Roach)
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness (Quote by - Hannah More)
Religion! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word! (Quote by - William Cowper)
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian. (Quote by - Mahatma Ghandi)
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
The search for religion is the starting point of thought (Quote by - Xu Zhimo)
An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoa bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford. (Quote by - Robert G. Lee)
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Being a Methodist, a Catholic, or a Baptist does not make one a disciple, it only makes him a Methodist, a Catholic, or a Baptist, who may or may not be a daily follower of Jesus Christ. –Michael Phillips)
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror. (Quote by - Owen Rowley)
Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ. (Quote by - Iranian martyr Mehdi Dibaj)
Religion is just mind control. (Quote by - George Carlin )
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now! (Quote by - George MacDonald)
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
Religion is the way we honour our ancestors' errors. (Quote by - Mark M. Otoysao)
The test for a prophet is in the Bible. It is this. When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken. (Quote by - Anonymous)
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. (Quote by - Anonymous)
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within. (Quote by - Charles H. Spurgeon)
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. (Quote by - Dan Brown)
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. (Quote by - Lemuel K. Washburn)
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad. (Quote by - Max Jacob)
With soap baptism is a good thing. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
The first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
Audible at five miles, painful at three, and lethal at one. (Quote by - Winchester Cathedral)
Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.-- Fred Allen)
This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. (Quote by - Joseph de Maistre)
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy when properly aged. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content. (Quote by - Gene Edward Veith)
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazi-ism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence. (Quote by - David Cameron)
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. (Quote by - Osho)
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.-- William J. Seymour)
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
My religion is based on truth and nonviolence. Truth is my God. Nonviolence is the means of realizing Him. (Quote by - M.K. Gandhi)
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
In nothing do the words of Christian liturgy strike the ears of contemporary men and women as 'empty ritual' so much as when they speak of a loving, Spirit-filled community where none is visible.-- Leonel Mitchell)
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)
I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was. (Quote by - Marsha Dobb)
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
Money is the wise man's religion. (Quote by - Euripides)
Religion is nothing else but love to God and man. (Quote by - William Penn)
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis )
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
My own mind is my own church. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long. (Quote by - Nicolas Sarkozy)
It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men. (Quote by - Patti Page)
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. (Quote by - John Adams)
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. (Quote by - Richard Burton)
The first Sunday I sang in the church choir, two hundred people changed their religion. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. (Quote by - Harvey Milk)
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. (Quote by - John Morley)
Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin. (Quote by - Anatole France)
An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. (Quote by - George Burns)
Religious men are and must be heretics now— for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand— or think of God but with a prearranged idea. (Quote by - Florence Nightingale)
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything; it just keeps you from enjoying it. (Quote by - Morris Mandel)
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.' (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
To all things clergic I am allergic. (Quote by - Alexander Woollcott)
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Religions are the cradles of despotism. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. (Quote by - Paramahansa Yogananda)
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. (Quote by - Keith Green)
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. (Quote by - Jesus Christ)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Religion is love; in no case is it logic. (Quote by - Beatrice Potter Webb)
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. (Quote by - Harry Emerson)
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Quote by - John Morley)
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. –Napolean Bonaparte)
To be of no Church is dangerous. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. (Quote by - Anna Sewell )
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. (Quote by - Mohammed Neguib)
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation. (Quote by - The Talmud)
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he must have a good heart, a warm heart. This is essential for a happy life, which is much more important than Buddhahood. This is part of what I call 'secular ethics'. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Quote by - Latin proverb)
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. (Quote by - Flavius Josephus)
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. (Quote by - Fulton Sheen)
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. (Quote by - Robert Runcie)
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinkin. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt. (Quote by - Jeffrey Satinover)
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. (Quote by - Randy K. Milholland)
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. (Quote by - Cathy Ladman)
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. (Quote by - Dr. Carl Sagan)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are— not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within— that you can begin to take control. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
After all, what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. (Quote by - The Globe and Mail)
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. (Quote by - Stella Terrill Mann)
I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it. (Quote by - Mae West)
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: Then what are the others here for? (Quote by - Anonymous)
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. (Quote by - Henri Bergson)
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion. (Quote by - Dewey Henize)
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organisation. For the latter makes use of violence, the former- of the corruption of the will. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)
If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by the terrorists. (Quote by - Vladimir Putin)
G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. (Quote by - Austin Farrer)
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. (Quote by - William James)
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. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead )
I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Religion is the opium of the people. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. (Quote by - Epicurus)
Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth. (Quote by - M.K. Gandhi)
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. (Quote by - Lady Blessington)
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. (Quote by - Robert Owen)
There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. (Quote by - Waiter Rant)
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously. (Quote by - Sophy Burnham)
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton )
Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers (Quote by - Geronimo)
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist. (Quote by - Arthur Hertzberg)
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside. (Quote by - Lord Melbourne)
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. (Quote by - John Updike)
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Infidel, n: in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. (Quote by - Steven Weinberg)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
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. (Quote by - George Gurdjieff)
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. (Quote by - W. Winwood Roade)
Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. (Quote by - Lennie Bruce)
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. (Quote by - Honoré de Balzac)
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? (Quote by - Bible)
I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction. (Quote by - Ian McKellen)
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic. (Quote by - Kingsley Amis)
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. (Quote by - James Madison)
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ. (Quote by - Pope Benedict XVI)
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
If you can't be kind, at least be vague. (Quote by - David Powers)
Things that will destroy man: Politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognised these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
To tolerate everything is to teach nothing. (Quote by - Dr. F. J. Kinsman)
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling for all content is admitted from the start, where a man comes to terms with life, it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
If there's a God, why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show. (Quote by - Wendy Morgan)
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations. (Quote by - George Washington)
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. (Quote by - Howard Stern)
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. (Quote by - Georgia Harkness)
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. (Quote by - Pope Benedict XVI)
Religions change, but beer and wine remain. (Quote by - Harvey Allen)
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. (Quote by - David Jerold)
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce (Quote by - Francesco Caracciolo)
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. (Quote by - Abdul Kalam)
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. (Quote by - Russian proverb)
If only God would give me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw. (Quote by - Unknown)
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. (Quote by - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Heathen, n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. (Quote by - Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Don't be agnostic - be something. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. (Quote by - Ludwig Feuerbach)
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more. (Quote by - Scott Cunningham)
It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ! (Quote by - - Ray C. Stedman)
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Conner)
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, and color. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
I'm not ok - you're not ok, and that's ok. (Quote by - Rev. William Sloane Coffin)
By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The Bible is literature, not dogma. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bibesco)
I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer? (Quote by - Robert Orben)
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate. (Quote by - Wayne Day)
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. (Quote by - David Hume)
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. (Quote by - Omar Bradley)
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. (Quote by - Scott Cunningham)
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
There is no hope of anyone going to heaven unless they believe this truth. You cannot go to heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place. (Quote by - Joyce Meyer)
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I might believe in the Redeemer if His followers looked more Redeemed. (Quote by - Fredrick Nietzsche)
The church exists for the sake of those outside it. (Quote by - William Temple)
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. (Quote by - James Madison)
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! (Quote by - Daniel Dennett)
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
My theology, briefly, Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion, not through yours. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Religion is a pill best swallowed without chewing. (Quote by - Unknown)
Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful. (Quote by - Randy K. Milholland)
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul. (Quote by - J. B. S. Haldane)
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they dwell in peace. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest. (Quote by - Steve Irwin)
People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it." (Quote by - Bishop Gilbert Burnet)
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. (Quote by - Jan Sterling)
Conservatives do not believe that the political struggle is the most important thing in life... The simplest of them prefer fox-hunting, the wisest religion. (Quote by - Quintin Hogg)
A fanatic is someone who cannot change his mind and will not change the subject.—Sir Winston Churchill)
One religion is as true as another. (Quote by - Henry Burton)
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. (Quote by - Abraham J. Heschel)
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians? (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton)
