Religion Quotes

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people ne...

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, wh...

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at G...

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man throu...

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drun...

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different becaus...

...Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heave...

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant ...

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as clo...

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches e...

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me...

You know what these “God Bless America” people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow t...

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

Life is sacred"? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the lead...

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,...

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us u...

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with...

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. Wha...

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it daw...

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck thi...

This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to...

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class...

To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for theexistence of UFOs as there is for ...

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all ...

I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and lo...

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of ...

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one ...

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he ...

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion...

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a ...

I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was...

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwant...

The worship of power is an old religion.

My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned ...

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some...

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps cre...

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not t...

The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or...

TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my tho...

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave...

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marr...

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in ...

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious ...

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to f...

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms ...

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose....

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perce...

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather ...

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may...

But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?" "Of course it’s true," the...

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you tha...

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he though...

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quali...

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his o...

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, a...

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and...

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us he...

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ...

I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator, whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us he...

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in h...

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no...

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely relig...

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."]

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

They know they dare not have their stuff stripped down to plain words. These Bishops and parsons wit...

The whole world," he said, "is going Radical again. Fundamentally. In religion. In politics. In law....

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and flo...

Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral dec...

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that p...

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christian...

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that te...