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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
Religion Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Religion

1.
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.

2.
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

3.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken

4.
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

5.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
Marlowe, Christopher

6.
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

7.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Marx, Karl

9.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Elizabeth Aston

10.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Webb, Beatrice Potter

11.
Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.
Randy K. Milholland

12.
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln

13.
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

14.
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

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Shaw, George Bernard

20.
Toleration is the best religion.
Hugo, Victor

21.
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.

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius

30.
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
Waiter Rant

31.
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

32.
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
Stella Terrill Mann

33.
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

34.
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

35.
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

36.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Martineau, Harriet

40.
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

41.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Lafollette, Suzanne

42.
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

43.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

44.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Arnold, Matthew

45.
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
Chartier, Emile-Auguste

46.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Sade, Marquis De

47.
A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

48.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Pascal, Blaise

49.
I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Hope, Bob

50.
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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