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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

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

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

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

Updike, John

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

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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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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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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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Jane Austen

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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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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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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.

Matthew Arnold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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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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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Bakunin, Mikhail

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Gurdjieff, George

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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