Religion Quotes

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

According to the orthodox Christian's Bible, all religions do not lead to God.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Religion says "Do." Grace says "Done" because Jesus said "It is finished."

I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.