Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Stella Terrill Mann

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Pascal, Blaise

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Chartier, Emile-Auguste

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

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Waiter Rant

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

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Updike, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

James Feibleman

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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