Religion Quotes

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.

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

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it.

Argue not concerning God, …re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

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

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

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, " said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Sin is a gravitation.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

the gods play nofavorites.

Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.

Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense.

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, ...

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

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

Religion is the opium of the poor

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

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

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist, " says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer