Motivational Quotes

Religion

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Religion

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 is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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

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

Doris Egan

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

Jane Austen

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

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

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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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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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

Hope, Bob

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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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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Updike, John

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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 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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl