Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Doris Egan

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Updike, John

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

Oscar Wilde

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Chartier, Emile-Auguste

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

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

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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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 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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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Ian McKellen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Matthew Arnold

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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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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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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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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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The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Pound, Ezra

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