Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Thomas

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

Mark Thomas

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

N. Scott Momaday

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

Mason Cooley

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

Mason Cooley

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Mason Cooley

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Marvin Williams

Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.

Oscar Wilde

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Margaret Smith

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

Daron Malakian

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

James Redfield

Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

Christopher Hitchens

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

Christopher Hitchens

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

Christopher Hitchens

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Evelyn Underhill

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Florence Nightingale

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Ezra Pound

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Eugenie Scott

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Francis Bacon

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

George Santayana

Fear first created the gods.

George Santayana

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

George Carlin

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

George Bernard Shaw

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Galileo Galilei

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.