Quotes about religion
religion atheism connections
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. Havelock Ellis
religion
I'm not really into religion. Harry Dean Stanton
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 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 atheism church
The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform. Frank Pavone
religion progress moral
He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray Immanuel Kant
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 pursuit temper
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Harriet Martineau
religion church trying
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion? Horace Greeley
religion age mistress
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages. Horace Walpole
religion genius lines
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
religion revealed taught unknown
Christianity, in its enlarged sense, as a religion revealed and taught in the bible, is not unknown to our law.
religion heroic blame
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Ezra Pound
religion atheism evolution
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science. Eugenie Scott
religion atheism evolution
Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable. Ernst Mayr
religion atheism may
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Pope Benedict XVI
religion atheism
All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.
religion records century
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 McCabe
religion revolution
My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone! John Adams
religion way assumption
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions. George Barna
religion legislation wells
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail. Solon
religion gone disunity
Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity. Neale Donald Walsch
religion folks without-god
Without God, I don't see how folks cope. Reba McEntire
religion church weekdays
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. John Updike
religion wickedness christianity
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. John Stuart Mill
religion might deities
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
religion atheism facts
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
religion world ornaments
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.