Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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..

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.

Cormac McCarthy

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Andy Rooney

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

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.

Christy Turlington

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

David Miliband

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Paul Watson

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

Christopher Hitchens

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Mufi Hannemann

I never mix my religion with politics. But I feel values are very important.

Paul Fussell

There is no Apocalypse.

Oswald Chambers

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

Mitt Romney

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

Rachel Maddow

[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

Howard Fast

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Religion is the pious worship of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Jim Jefferies

God built the world, but he did not know it was round.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.