Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Cuomo

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Marianne Williamson

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

James Redfield

Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

Charles Churchill

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Blaise Pascal

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Blaise Pascal

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

Bill Hicks

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

Ayn Rand

This god, this one word: I.

Ayn Rand

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Bertrand Russell

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

Bertrand Russell

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Benjamin Disraeli

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

C. S. Lewis

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

C. S. Lewis

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

C. S. Lewis

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

C. S. Lewis

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Alain de Botton

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ...

Baruch Spinoza

I call him free who is led solely by reason.