Religion Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Albert Einstein,
Mignon McLaughlin
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| Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? |
| - Douglas Adams |
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| The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. |
| - Matthew Arnold |
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| Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The Christian Right is neither. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God wanted to have a holiday, so He asked St. Peter for suggestions on where to go. "Why not go to Jupiter?" asked St. Peter. "No, too much gravity, too much stomping around," said God. "Well, how about Mercury?" "No, it's too hot there." "Okay," said St. Peter, "what about Earth?" "No," said God, "They're such horrible gossips. When I was there 2000 years ago, I had an affair with a Jewish woman, and they're still talking about it." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. |
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| There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. |
| - Lenny Bruce |
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| The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. |
| - Sir Richard Burton |
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| The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. |
| - George Carlin |
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| I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. |
| - George Carlin |
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| Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. |
| - Charles Caleb Colton |
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| An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?" |
| - Annie Dillard |
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| Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even |
| - Barry Goldwater |
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| In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. |
| - Stephen Jay Gould |
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| No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. |
| - William ernest Hocking |
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| The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| All men have need of the gods. |
| - Homer |
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| We are punished by our sins, not for them. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who "ever plays the geometer." |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. |
| - Helen Keller |
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| There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. |
| - Louis Kronenberger |
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| You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. |
| - Anne Lamott |
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| It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. |
| - D.H. Lawrence |
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| There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist. |
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. |
| - Stella Terrill Mann |
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| In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. |
| - Karl Menninger |
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| Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. |
| - John Morley |
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| The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. |
| - George Savile |
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| Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. |
| - Frank Sinatra |
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| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. |
| - Jonathan Swift |
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| There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. |
| - Desmond Tutu |
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| But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. |
| - John Updike |
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| People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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