Motivational Quotes

Religion

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Religion

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Twain, Mark

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Pascal, Blaise

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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Elizabeth Aston

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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.

Marlowe, Christopher

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Updike, John

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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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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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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Pound, Ezra

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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Doris Egan

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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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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Hobbes, Thomas

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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