Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Religion

Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Jane Austen

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

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

Ian McKellen

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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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

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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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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 a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Hope, Bob

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doris Egan

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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.