Religion Quotes - Page 3

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

George Bernard Shaw

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

The Globe and Mail

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.

Voltaire

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

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

Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

I'm not really a Jew just Jew-ish not the whole hog.

Jonathan Miller

If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

Max Jacob

My own mind is my own church.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

James M. Barrie

Religion is the way we honour our ancestors' errors.

Mark M. Otoysao

The church exists for the sake of those outside it.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.

The test for a prophet is in the Bible. It is this. "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord if the thing follow not nor come to pass that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken."

Anonymous

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

Charles Caleb Colton

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.

Finley Peter Dunne

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

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