Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tillich

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Paul Kurtz

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

Heraclitus

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Henry Ward Beecher

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Henry Ward Beecher

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is using everything for God.

John Locke

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

Peter Kreeft

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

Peter Kreeft

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

Thomas Jefferson

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Rumi

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

Richard Dawkins

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...

Richard P. Feynman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Richard John Neuhaus

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Thomas Paine

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

Thomas Paine

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

Thomas Paine

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

Thomas Paine

Science is the true theology.

Thomas Paine

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act...

Thomas Paine

The adulterous connection between church and state...

Thomas Paine

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Thomas Huxley

. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

Thomas Huxley

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Browne

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sri Chinmoy

True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.