Religion Quotes - Page 5

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.

Seán O'Casey

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.

Alan Watts

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.

The Talmud

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

Elbert Hubbard

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.

J.B.S. Haldane

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

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.

Edward Gibbon

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.

Erich Fromm

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

Omar Bradley

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.

Heinrich Heine

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

Albert Camus

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.

Kingsley Amis

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

Charles Darwin

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

Ambrose Bierce

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.

J.B. Phillips

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

Heinrich Heine

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.

Thomas Paine

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.

William Temple

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

Edmund Burke

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.

Quentin Crisp

The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.

John Ayscough

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

My own understanding is similar to that of scholar of religion and pastor Howard Thurman. I find a profound teaching in Thurman's saying that "what is true in any religion is in the religion because it is true; it is not true because it is in the religion." Thurman's saying is true for Christian theology. If there is truth in a theology, then it is present simply because it is true, not because it is in the theology. Whether or not we can find truth in a school of thought or particular theological construction is most important, not the school of thought or particular theological construction. Therefore, I find events of truth to draw on from a diversity of theological writings, rather than locate my work in a particular school of thought. The truth we Christians seek, beyond all our words and all of our labels, is found through unity in diversity. It is the common ground we all long for. No one theology alone is capable of revealing this common ground. We require a diversity taken together, each with its distinctive gifts. Together, these various insights into Christian truth correct and inform one another. This is the gift of ecumenism.

Karen Baker-Fletcher

Religion should be a basis for overcoming division, not for creating it.

Julia Suryakusuma

Why should the spread of ideas and people result in reforms that lower violence? There are several pathways. The most obvious is a debunking of ignorance and superstition. A connected and educated populace, at least in aggregate and over the long run, is bound to be disabused of poisonous beliefs, such as that members of other races and ethnicities are innately avaricious or perfidious; that economic and military misfortunes are caused by the treachery of ethnic minorities; that women don't mind to be raped; that children must be beaten to be socialized; that people choose to be homosexual as part of a morally degenerate lifestyle; that animals are incapable of feeling pain. The recent debunking of beliefs that invite or tolerate violence call to mind Voltaire's quip that those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Steven Pinker

..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit newer forms of right/s as and when recognized as an inalienable ‘right’ , along with wrapped-in duties; duties, on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand, and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other...

Henrietta Newton Martin

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'.

Wole Soyinka

COMPASSIONThe religion of atheists

Kamil Ali

Maybe it’s us who are the psychosis of some massive, all-knowing globule of nebulous space junk.

T. K. Decker

I am an atheist and your cunts cannot change my mind.

M.F. Moonzajer

Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

Reza Aslan

The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most interesting of modern books. In truth, of course, neither of the two phrases covers the matter, because fundamental human religion and fundamental human irreligion are both at once old and new; philosophy is either eternal or it is not philosophy. The modern habit of saying, 'This is my opinion, but I may be wrong,' is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying 'Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and its suits me'; the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

G.K. Chesterton

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

Paul Greene

To embrace the belief that man is the accidental product of a random and otherwise genetically and biologically impossible Darwinian gradual evolution allegedly monitored by a quasi-fictitious natural selection, a process that supposedly started with an amoeba nobody knows how it arrived on Earth that somehow became a fish with stumps for legs that turned crocodile, a creature that following successive transmutations “evolved” into an ape that ended up as Leonardo Da Vinci is an attitude that comes in conflict with the scientific method of research and it certainly violates its standard principles.

Paul Greene

Religion thrives on want and fear of the unknown, on lack of education. A frightened and confused human is fed by religious institutions with the illusion that the solution to his real problems is to appeal to the good will of an imaginary supernatural divinity religious institutions claim to represent. With one hand they offer a cup of rice and a pair of used shoes someone else has paid for. With the other, they place the Bible on the table, setting up the poor in spirit for the belief trap.

Paul Greene

Life on Earth is not the result of a series of miracles performed by a supernatural god-creator, and it is definitely not a product of matter having a mind of its own, of an equally miraculous evolutionary process supervised by Lady Natural Selection who would turn rabbits into lions.

Paul Greene

That everything in nature has “the appearance” of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else.

Paul Greene

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

Paul Greene

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