Quotes about religion
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion stressed magnificence
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. Carl Sagan
religion
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
religion vivid intense
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 Hoagland
religion ordinary deities
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
religion atheism might
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. Edward Gibbon
religion belief equations
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold J. Toynbee
religion earth return
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. Bertrand Russell
religion battle faces
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle. Bertrand Russell
religion causes world
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God... Bertrand Russell
religion christianity know-yourself
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. C. S. Lewis
religion atheism humanist
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' Charles M. Schulz
religion church kneeling
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. Billy Wilder
religion atheism belief
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. Bill Maher
religion atheism littles
One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time. Bill Maher
religion atheism facts
The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live. Bill Maher
religion atheism world
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion. Benjamin Franklin
religion atheism weight
Revealed religion has no weight with me. Benjamin Franklin
religion experts obedience
Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Austin Farrer
religion secret littles
Let's keep that our little secret, shall we. Aimee McPherson
religion principles missions
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them. Alexandre Vinet
religion atheism knees
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. Susan B. Anthony
religion
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
religion islam different
It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. Billy Connolly
religion firsts whiskey
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion? Brigham Young
religion worried
I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER. Kerry King
religion trouble obscure
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
religion may being-true
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. Blaise Pascal
religion atheism would-be
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! Bill Hicks
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. Dennis Potter
religion different revelations
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot