Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Religion

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

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

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

Ian McKellen

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

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

James Feibleman

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

Pound, Ezra

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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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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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hope, Bob

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