Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Religion

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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 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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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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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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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.

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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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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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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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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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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ian McKellen

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

Kraus, Karl

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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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