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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Best Quotes about Religion

1.
I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Hope, Bob

2.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Webb, Beatrice Potter

3.
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

4.
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

5.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

6.
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

7.
Toleration is the best religion.
Hugo, Victor

8.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Sade, Marquis De

9.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Bierce, Ambrose

10.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Updike, John

11.
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius

12.
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.

13.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Lafollette, Suzanne

14.
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

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Marx, Karl

22.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Martineau, Harriet

23.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold

24.
Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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.

29.
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
Stella Terrill Mann

31.
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
Proverb, Chinese

32.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
Doris Egan

34.
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

35.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Elizabeth Aston

36.
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

37.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane Austen

38.
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

39.
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Shaw, George Bernard

40.
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

41.
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

42.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
Huxley, Aldous

44.
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
Ian McKellen

45.
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

46.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Pascal, Blaise

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
Marlowe, Christopher


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