Religion Quotes

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee th...

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is encl...

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know...

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no ...

As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to...

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came ...

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn ...

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no...

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on oth...

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel...

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion...

Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depend...

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way...

In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for i...

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try...

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element i...

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who ne...

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he ...

But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the mornin...

But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and won...

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but...

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until ...

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those t...

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back o...

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Chris...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies danc...

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, o...

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the ...

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...

I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may th...

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are...

My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

The divine is always abominable."Houses Under The Sea

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-y...

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth an...

The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive our...

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary...

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity...

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the sol...

But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are m...

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowe...

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path...

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why relig...

Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following f...

Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I believe it is true that h...

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannic...

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

You see, the religious people — most of them — really think this planet is an experiment. That's wha...

The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...

Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up...

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the univ...

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want peop...

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it w...

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of div...

Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ...

n every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and ...

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than w...

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s some...

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we r...

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however ...

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This ...

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but...

A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the u...

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

Cristo quería a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecía a los hombres de bien, a la ...

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is th...

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?-I can barely remember Lord's Prayer.-A beautiful an...

It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that...

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates reli...

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shad...

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There migh...

He's not feeling well," Clary said, catching at Simon's wrist. "We're going.""No," Simon said. "No, ...

I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in th...

Being a vampire is not a curse. It’s a disease,” Tessa filled in. “But they still can’t enter hallow...

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...

If we suggest that it is okay to make fun of everything except certain aspects of Islam because Musl...

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't ...

and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ...