Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Religion

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

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

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

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

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

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

Updike, John

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

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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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