Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Updike, John

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

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

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

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

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

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Ian McKellen

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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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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

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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.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pound, Ezra

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Waiter Rant

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Matthew Arnold

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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.