Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Charles M. Schulz

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Billy Wilder

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Bill Maher

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Bill Maher

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

Bill Maher

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

Benjamin Whichcote

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

Billy Sunday

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

Bertrand Russell

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

Bertrand Russell

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

Bertrand Russell

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...

C. S. Lewis

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Carl Jung

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Salman Rushdie

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Ridley Scott

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

Michael Leunig

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Christianity, in its enlarged sense, as a religion revealed and taught in the bible, is not unknown to our law.

John Wesley

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

John Wesley

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

John von Neumann

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Mark Thomas

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

Mark Thomas

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Mark Thomas

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Theodore Roosevelt

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Margaret Heffernan

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Michael Palin

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

Ravi Zacharias

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Hemant Mehta

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Plato

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

John Updike

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.