Motivational Quotes

Religion

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Religion

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Frye, Northrop

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Einstein, Albert

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Hugo, Victor

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes.

Rushdie, Salman

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Young, Brigham

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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Quinet, Edgar

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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Tillich, Paul

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When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Kraus, Karl

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

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A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Martineau, Harriet

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

James, William

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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

Herzen, Alexander

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

Feuerbach, Ludwig

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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

Ian McKellen

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someoneÆs bugging you just act crazy. IÆve modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis.

Waiter Rant

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffer

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Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

Waiter Rant

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen

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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D. H. Lawrence

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Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

Stella Terrill Mann

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Chartier, Emile-Auguste

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I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

Hope, Bob

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Arnold, Matthew

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Russell, Bertrand

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And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

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When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Marx, Karl