Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

Mario Cuomo

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

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.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Alfred North Whitehead

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Aldous Huxley

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Albert Einstein

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

Albert Einstein

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Adolf Hitler

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

Angelus Silesius

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

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.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Adrian Rogers

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

Adoniram Judson

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

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.

Sydney Smith

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Tyler, The Creator

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

Alexander Woollcott

To all things clergic I am allergic.

Abigail Adams

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

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?