Religion Quotes
To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.
Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.
If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.
One's interest or need does not annul other's right.
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.
What is the meaning of Religion? The revelation of the hidden and unknown power of this human body, and to know that infinite power of this human body is the religion.
Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.
Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.
The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.
The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.
He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)
In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.
I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.
We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.
When our spirit departs, we will transit into the next world.
Heavenly Father, let your glory be seen in our lives.
In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...
Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.
Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.
I blamed the Bible, when its words were not at fault, only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws, cutting others off at the knees.
Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.
Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.
The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.
The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life?
The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?
You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics
He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say!
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...
After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word coun