Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Edward Hoagland

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Charles Spurgeon

Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

Dan Barker

Theology is a subject without an object

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Oswald Chambers

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

R. C. Sproul

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.