Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

Waiter Rant

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

Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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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.

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

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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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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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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Matthew Arnold

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Doris Egan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jane Austen

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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.