Motivational Quotes

Religion

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

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Religion

Toleration is the best religion.

Hugo, Victor

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

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

Jane Austen

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

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

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.

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Updike, John

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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Doris Egan

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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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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Marx, Karl

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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

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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 is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Hope, Bob

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

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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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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