Motivational Quotes

Religion

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Religion

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.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

James Feibleman

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

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

Waiter Rant

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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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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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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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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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Jane Austen

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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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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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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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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 a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Matthew Arnold

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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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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

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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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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Pound, Ezra