Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Cormac McCarthy

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Amish Tripathi

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Harry Browne

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

Barry Humphries

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

There is only one Religion; the Religion of Love.

Orson Scott Card

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Ram Dass

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Ram Dass

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

H. L. Mencken

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

David Banner

...Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn..

Billy Graham

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

Douglas William Jerrold

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Marianne Williamson

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

Erwin McManus

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

John Eldredge

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Sophia Bush

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Daron Malakian

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Annie Dillard

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

D. Elton Trueblood

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Clarence Darrow

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Daniel Dennett

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

E. O. Wilson

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

Doug Stanhope

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Daniel Dennett

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

Daniel Dennett

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Daniel Dennett

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.