Religion Quotes
It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.
They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.
Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.