Motivational Quotes

Religion

A maker of idols is never an idolater.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Religion

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Inge, Dean William R.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

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

Updike, John

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

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

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

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

James Feibleman

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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Waiter Rant

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

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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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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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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Ian McKellen

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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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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

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter