Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

Best Quotes about Religion

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

Inge, Dean William R.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Updike, John

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

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

Waiter Rant

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

Chartier, Emile-Auguste

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Kraus, Karl

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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Frye, Northrop

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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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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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James Feibleman

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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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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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Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hope, Bob

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