Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

James Randi

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.

Eric Hoffer

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

Northrop Frye

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

Norman Vincent Peale

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

Norman Vincent Peale

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Rachel Maddow

[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

Christopher Hitchens

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Joseph Joubert

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Joseph Joubert

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Oswald Chambers

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

Joseph Joubert

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

Ken Ham

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

Mark Twain

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

Mark Twain

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Mark Twain

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Mark Twain

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Mufi Hannemann

I never mix my religion with politics. But I feel values are very important.

Mitt Romney

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

Paul Fussell

There is no Apocalypse.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Religion is the pious worship of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Martin Buber

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.