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.

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

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

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Charles Spurgeon

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Charles Spurgeon

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Charles Spurgeon

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Bo Derek

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Edward Snowden

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

Eazy-E

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Brad Pitt

The [scouts] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.

Bradley Cooper

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

Barbara Cartland

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.