Quotes about religion
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My goal is never to make fun of religion. Chuck Palahniuk
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Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. Gore Vidal
religion atheism answers
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him. C. S. Lewis
religion trying succeed
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. C. S. Lewis
religion generations world
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. Carl Sagan
religion steps why-not
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question. Carl Sagan
religion atheism kind
[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. Carl Sagan
religion bitterness christianity
... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness. Bernadette Devlin
religion rewards duty
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. Bertrand Russell
religion respecting
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that. Rashid al-Ghannushi
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There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one. Sophia Bush
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Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.
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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion. Daron Malakian
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Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered. James Redfield
religions standard wants
He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin. Matt Stone
religion stressed magnificence
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion vivid intense
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. Edward Hoagland
religion ordinary deities
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. Edward Gibbon
religion atheism might
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. Edward Gibbon
religion belief equations
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold J. Toynbee
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Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
religion said wells
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut
religion defense
Religion is a defense against the experience of God. Carl Jung
religion baths doe
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good. Billy Sunday
religion earth return
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. Bertrand Russell
religion battle faces
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle. Bertrand Russell
religion causes world
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God... Bertrand Russell
religion atheism humanist
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' Charles M. Schulz
religion church kneeling
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. Billy Wilder
religion atheism belief
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. Bill Maher