Quotes about religion
religion atheism christianity
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. Thomas Jefferson
religion atheism doe
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.
religion littles
No religion but blasphemes a little. Victor Hugo
religion against-religion
I am for religion, against religions.
religion lovers
The lovers of God have no religion but God alone. Rumi
religion assumption should
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. Steve Allen
religion neurosis psychiatry
Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis. Sigmund Freud
religion kind share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such...
religion atheism balance
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. Steven Weinberg
religion atheism seems
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
religion doubt atheism
Who knows most, doubts most. Robert Browning
religion atheism life-is
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down. Ravi Zacharias
religion may orthodoxy
Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this. John Wesley
religion next generations
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
religion complicated truth-is
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. John von Neumann
religion should ten-commandments
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. Theodore Roosevelt
religion certainty correctness
Certainty is no guarantor of correctness. Margaret Heffernan
religion atheism littles
In the absence of fear there is little faith. Michael Palin
religion atheism moral
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God? Plato
religion church weekdays
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. John Updike
religion wickedness christianity
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. John Stuart Mill
religion might deities
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
religion atheism facts
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
religion world ornaments
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
religion atheism divinity
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. John Shelby Spong
religion morality injustice
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. John Rawls
religion atheism different
Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions. Mark Thomas
religion perception atheism
The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.
religion atheism belief
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.
religion enchantment turns
I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
religion morality crosses
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. Nikolai Berdyaev
religion purpose sacred
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred. N. Scott Momaday
religion balance church
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. Mignon McLaughlin