Motivational Quotes

Religion

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Religion

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

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 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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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Ian McKellen

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Marlowe, Christopher