Motivational Quotes

Religion

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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Best Quotes about Religion

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

Hope, Bob

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

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

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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 maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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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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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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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

Ian McKellen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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

James Feibleman

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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

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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