Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Confucius

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

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..

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.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

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

Marianne Williamson

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

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.

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.

Stephen Jay Gould

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

Stephen Jay Gould

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

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.

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.

Mario Cuomo

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

Benjamin Whichcote

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Carl Jung

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Billy Sunday

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

Erwin McManus

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

John Eldredge

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

Sophia Bush

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

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.