Religion Quotes

With soap baptism is a good thing.

The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

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.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.

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.

The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.)

I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the bible and it's going to turn out all right.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.

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.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.

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.

If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.

The first Sunday I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

If you can't be kind at least be vague.

God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.

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.

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?"

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"

The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.

I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?

One religion is as true as another.

His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.

Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.

A good life is the only religion.

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.

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

Hope is the one positive force to help us persevere during our darkest storms. Jesus gives us hope when He walks beside us through the fiery furnace and helps us rise above adversity.

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must firstunderstand the nature of the force behind its existence.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?