Religion Quotes

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windo...

All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in f...

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minu...

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They te...

According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the ...

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of...

Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of ...

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan,...

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question...

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fa...

We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne ...

It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of rel...

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy...

The Other Worlds which fairy tales explore open a way for writers and storytellers to speak in Other...

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interp...

They have not forgotten the Mysteries,” she said, “they have found them too difficult. They want a G...

They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a G...

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us ...

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the ...

It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty...

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my ...

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experie...

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics whi...

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-...

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do u...

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent ...

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my ...

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't ...

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because y...

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusor...

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth t...

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he ...

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independe...

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it d...

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,...

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been institut...

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in...

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flou...

A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is t...

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More ...

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I poss...

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the s...

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good...

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion giv...

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it...

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transce...

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this...

The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term “method” must...

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality woul...

In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the ...

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum phys...

He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't...

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by th...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would y...

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who beli...

Don't measure the size of the mountain talk to the One who can move it.

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love...

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heaven...

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many s...

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what...

Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: ‘Science is meaningless because it gives no a...

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hard...

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...

The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my...

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster wei...

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to so...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.