Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William Cowper

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

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Laurence Sterne

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Leslie Stephen

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Orson Pratt

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

E. M. Forster

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

Dan Brown

Nothing in Christianity is original.

David Livingstone

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

Annie Besant

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Alfred de Musset

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

T. S. Eliot

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Toba Beta

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

Jose Saramago

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Khalil Dulaimi

They are moving to a speedy conviction ... they have already passed a sentence even before the trial has ended.

Miguel

You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

Mark Twain

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'