Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

Best Quotes about Religion

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

A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

James Feibleman

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

Updike, John

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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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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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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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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis 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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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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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 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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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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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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