Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

Angelus Silesius

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

Andy Rooney

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Andre Malraux

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Ambrose Bierce

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Ambrose Bierce

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Susan B. Anthony

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Tracy Chapman

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Billy Connolly

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Edmund Burke

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Edmund Burke

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Edward Hoagland

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 Gibbon

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

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.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Austin Farrer

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Dan Barker

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

Dan Barker

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Dan Barker

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Dan Barker

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

Arthur Helps

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

Kerry King

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Carl Sagan

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.