Religion Quotes

...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes....

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes ...

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous languag...

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely ...

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding...

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dign...

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing hea...

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact...

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you ...

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everythi...

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the mar...

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to descri...

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d...

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals w...

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the...

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in or...

Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering swe...

They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful r...

Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to ...

I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there remindin...

To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but ...

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious...

...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fund...

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhe...

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling...

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnati...

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being t...

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve....

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fea...

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Step...

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CH...

The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of...

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...

Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and ...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... Dur...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but ...

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropol...

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that edu...

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... be...

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take t...

Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... be...

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and...

There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ine...

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equ...

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that r...

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourse...

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss t...

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than ...

I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I ...

A meaningless life for a human being has none of the dignity of animal unselfconsciousness; we canno...

My religion is no way of knowing me.

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that Go...

The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite ...

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It te...

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become...

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to g...

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven ...

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my vi...

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpar...

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along ...

Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group...

But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God woul...

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

Music is my religion.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My ...

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-ston...

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who ...

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...

As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as i...

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never ri...

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...