Religion Quotes

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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

A belief is an uneducated guess.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

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.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

the gods play nofavorites.

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Religion is the opium of the poor

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ...

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.