Religion Quotes

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Godliness is practical religion.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.