Religion Quotes

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve o...

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled ...

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling...

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sec...

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on th...

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me ...

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth b...

So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the un...

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religi...

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us e...

There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all...

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on va...

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been ...

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for c...

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of t...

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

My own mind is my own church.

But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the unive...

if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wron...

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions...

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different tha...

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have...

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature ...

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and n...

This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millennium, the end days, no need to be res...

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative st...

Sometimes things aren't very clear, that's all. Things look like they're going against us, and thoug...

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when scien...

I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on c...

Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of...

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not ...

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I...

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have of...

We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' t...

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at ob...

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, ...

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplis...

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then...

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed a...

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to...

Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all lic...

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move i...

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want ...

Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you su...

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...

What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of stan...

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported enti...

The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in ...

I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believer...

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstru...

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeug...

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others di...

But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonris...

In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichr...

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based ...

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious convictio...

...the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting...

I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mout...

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...

People need God the way a three-year-old needs a chainsaw.

The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life...

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same...

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the whites...

I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water wh...

It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into that well the labor of one's whole life, one flin...

So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down a...

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible prepa...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

God save us from people who mean well.

Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and ...

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from...

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let...

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return t...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever s...

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detest...

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,-- her notion being that the Gods, who ne...

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, ...

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality o...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that ...

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc