Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Marlowe, Christopher

Best Quotes about Religion

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ian McKellen

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

Hope, Bob

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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

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

H. L. Mencken

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Doris Egan

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

James Feibleman

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Updike, John

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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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