Famous Quotes & Sayings

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

Joseph McCabe

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

Joseph Glanvill

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

John Keats

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

Josh Billings

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

Karl Kraus

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Paul Tillich

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Paul Kurtz

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

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.

Oswald Chambers

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

Rachel Maddow

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

Mufi Hannemann

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

Oscar Wilde

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Margaret Smith

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

Mitt Romney

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

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.

Mark Twain

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

Mark Twain

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Mark Twain

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Mark Twain

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Paul Fussell

There is no Apocalypse.

Ken Ham

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

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.

Mike Wallace

The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

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.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

N. Scott Momaday

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.