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

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Doris Egan

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Henry, Patrick

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Ian McKellen

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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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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Jane Austen

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

Carl Sandburg

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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.