Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mignon McLaughlin

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Plato

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

Mason Cooley

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

Mason Cooley

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Mason Cooley

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Marvin Williams

Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.

Theodore Roosevelt

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Margaret Heffernan

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Michael Palin

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

Michael Leunig

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Neale Donald Walsch

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

Marcel Proust

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

John Updike

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

John Stuart Mill

The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

John Stuart Mill

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

John Stuart Mill

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

John Stuart Mill

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

John Shelby Spong

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

John Rawls

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

James Randi

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Laurence Sterne

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Leslie Stephen

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

George Barna

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Hemant Mehta

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Mahatma Gandhi

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Mahatma Gandhi

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Mahatma Gandhi

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Mahatma Gandhi

My religion has no geographical limits.