Best Quotes about Religion
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
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
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 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
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane Austen
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
Proverb, Chinese
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
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Bierce, Ambrose
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
Stella Terrill Mann
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Updike, John
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
Waiter Rant
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Martineau, Harriet
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
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
I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Hope, Bob
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
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
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
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
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
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Kraus, Karl
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
Chartier, Emile-Auguste
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Webb, Beatrice Potter
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Arnold, Matthew
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
Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
Hubbard, Elbert
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
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
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Elizabeth Aston
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
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
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
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
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.
Randy K. Milholland
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
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
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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 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
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
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
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