Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Carl Sandburg

Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

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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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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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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Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

James Feibleman

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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis 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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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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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Waiter Rant

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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

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

Updike, John

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

Elizabeth Aston

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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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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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Doris Egan

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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