Religion Quotes

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.