Quotes about religious
religious people atheism
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. Mark Twain
religious people
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
religious book reading
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.
religious errors feelings
...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader of any great merit.
religious blessed imagination
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
religious men heaven
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
religious men forgiving
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
religious america speech
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
religious blessing neighbor
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
religious men kind
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
religious atoms proof
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
religious prayer powerful
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge
religious firsts ass
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
religious children two
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement
religious political enemy
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
religious disrespect persons
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
religious thoughtful simple
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.
religious second-chance hands
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
religious apples sake
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden
religious believe passion
Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.
religious atheist believe
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
religious religion littles
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
religious ideas always-trying
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
religious men fool
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
religious brother cutting
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
religious atheist people
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
religious yield natural-instinct
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
religious art pandemics
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. Martin Filler
religious fall hands
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. Marquis de Lafayette
religious fear ignorance
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear - those are the twin bases of every religion. Marquis de Sade
religious son thinking
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
religious commitment america
America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional. Mark McKinnon
religious men color
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals. Mario Vargas Llosa