Famous Quotes & Sayings

Havelock Ellis

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Harry Dean Stanton

I'm not really into religion.

Herman Melville

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Henry David Thoreau

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Jeremy Bentham

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Harriet Martineau

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Jim Jefferies

God built the world, but he did not know it was round.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Frank Herbert

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Howard Fast

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Immanuel Kant

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Horace Greeley

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Horace Walpole

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

Horace Walpole

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

H. L. Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

H. L. Mencken

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

H. L. Mencken

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

H. L. Mencken

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

H. L. Mencken

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

Cher

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Sydney Smith

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Tyler, The Creator

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

Alexander Woollcott

To all things clergic I am allergic.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Abigail Adams

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

Adrian Rogers

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

Adoniram Judson

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Erwin McManus

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.