Religion Quotes

She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.

The way we live our lives is not sustainable. I don’t just mean recycling and turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth. I mean the way we treat each other. The way we pick and choose whose lives are important – who we actually treat as human. There is nobody on this earth whose life is not of value. And that includes those of us who have been left behind. Maybe they did go to some Christian heaven. But what I’m saying is, we’re good people too. We’re worthwhile people. I’d vouch for every last one of you.

To conceive of a god in one’s image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Gregor flushed as he went on: "The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book: when Augustine addresses God, saying: 'Thou hast made us for Thyself and our heart is unquiet until it rests in Thee.' This sentence, my lords and friends, is immortal. It contains the very heart of religion.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

Christopher Hitchens

That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both pled their cases earnestly. She covered Her ears and moaned in misery. She knew Her humans were multidimensional and She could no longer live under the rigid architecture of Her youthful choices.

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Fulton J. Sheen

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

Hope is the one positive force to help us persevere during our darkest storms. Jesus gives us hope when He walks beside us through the fiery furnace and helps us rise above adversity.

The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

Sir Francis Bacon

One religion is as true as another.

His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.

Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

Benjamin Franklin

A good life is the only religion.

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

Charles J. Ingersoll

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Religion is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.

The first Sunday I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

If you can't be kind at least be vague.

God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.

Anonymous

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

Jesus was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday. We can therefore assume that when he returns again it will also be on a bank holiday.

As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"

Anonymous

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

Anonymous

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Laurence J. Peter

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

Anonymous

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"

Anonymous

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

Hal Roach

The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.

Wilfred Grenfell

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoa bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.

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

Bob Hope

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Mae West

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.

Abigail Van Buren

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G.Wells

I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

Wayne Day

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Marshall Brickman

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