Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- H. L. Mencken

Best Quotes about Religion

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

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

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 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

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

James Feibleman

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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.

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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

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Doris Egan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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 a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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

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

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

Jane Austen

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter