Religion Quotes

I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

I'll pray for you.""That's very kind of you.""I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a dec...

Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the d...

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the re...

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to suppor...

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not a...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and...

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kin...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy...

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most pre...

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all...

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to...

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.“Nothing about religion is simple.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness...

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want...

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge...

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spo...

Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They f...

My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on ...

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of u...

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be caut...

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistica...

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in un...

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of...

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

People say nothing can solve the Middle East problem. Not mediation, not arms, not financial aid. I ...

Even the staunchest atheist growing up in Western society cannot avoid having absorbed the basic ten...

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, s...

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosi...

The first Sunday I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he ...

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer m...

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for...

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slav...

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid ...

They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time negle...

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the ...

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent o...

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth conside...

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant we...

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the r...

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety:...

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions a...

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its fi...

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above t...

The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors th...

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent....

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be ...

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a re...

Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers ...

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you ar...

New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a c...

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weari...

If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one h...

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precep...

Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing th...

When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiri...

But things have been so admirably arranged by the Divine inventor of social order that in this, as i...

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly...

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal...

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...

Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...

Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is...