Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Oscar Wilde

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

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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

H. L. Mencken