Quotes about religion
religion treasure heavenly
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! William Cowper
religion doe pleasure
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
religion needs heavenly
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
religion age energy
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. Tony Wilson
religion church pages
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . Upton Sinclair
religion atheism worship
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. Stephen Colbert
religion bills bill-o-reilly
Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
religion society church
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. Thomas B. Macaulay
religion awake hippopotamus
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
religion atheism christianity
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. Thomas Jefferson
religion atheism doe
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.
religion voyages ships
The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. Herman Melville
religion soil opinion
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil. Henry David Thoreau
religion asceticism earth
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. Jeremy Bentham
religion racist boring
Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan. Christopher Hitchens
religion horizon burning
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.
religion redemption surrender
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
religion firsts advantage
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
religion atheism solipsism
Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
religion force built
No religion can be built on force. George Sand
religion fine source
The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine Emily Saliers
religion enough bigs
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. Evelyn Underhill
religion firsts formulas
Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success. Erwin W. Lutzer
religion pursuit temper
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Harriet Martineau
religion devil earth
Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine. Friedrich Nietzsche
religion praying disgrace
It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.
religion blasphemy died
Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
religion god-exists ifs
Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
religion millionaire dear
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. George Bernard Shaw
religion morality conquer
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
religion atheism world
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
religion astronomy professors
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand. Galileo Galilei
religion earth results
Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being. George Carlin