Religion Quotes - Page 2

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

G.K. Chesterton

To all things clergic I am allergic.

Alexander Woollcott

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord in his wisdom didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

Anonymous

If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.

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

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

Benjamin Disraeli

As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

Christopher Morley

My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

George Bernard Shaw

The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.)

I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.

Rev. William Sloane Coffin

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

W. Winwood Roade

Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the bible and it's going to turn out all right.

Anonymous

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.

If you bring forth what is within you what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.

If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Saki

Don't be agnostic - be something.

A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said 'I would do thee no harm for the world but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.

Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.

Dean William R. Inge

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.

Religion converts despair which destroys into resignation which submits.

Lady Blessington

For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got angry scolded God were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Phyllis McGinley

Audible at five miles painful at three and lethal at one.

Winchester Cathedral

With soap baptism is a good thing.

Robert G. Ingersoll

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.

Anonymous

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

W Somerset Maugham

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Russian proverb

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Karl Marx

To tolerate everything is to teach nothing.

Dr. F. J. Kinsman

We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.

Rev. George Carey

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

G.K. Chesterton

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

Bob Hope

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

Søren Kierkegaard

Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Walter Kaufmann

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

Charles Caleb Colton

I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.

Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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