Religion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
-- A. A. Milne -
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
-- A. Powell Davies -
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
-- A.C. Grayling -
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
-- A.J. Ayer -
A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
-- Aaron Arrowsmith -
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
-- Abraham Cowley -
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
-- Abraham Cowley -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
-- Adolf Hitler -
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
-- Adoniram Judson -
Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.
-- Adrian Rogers -
[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
-- Alan Turing -
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
-- Alan Watts -
To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.
-- Alan Wolfe -
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
-- Albert Camus -
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-- Albert Camus -
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
-- Albert Camus -
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.
-- Albert Einstein -
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosenabout them.
-- Albert Einstein -
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
-- Albert Einstein -
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
-- Albert Einstein -
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
-- Albert Einstein -
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
-- Albert Einstein -
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
-- Albert Einstein -
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
-- Albert Einstein -
Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.
-- Albert Mohler -
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
-- Albert Mohler -
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
-- Aldous Huxley -
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
-- Alexander Pope -
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
-- Alexander Pope -
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.
-- Alice Cooper -
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
-- Alistair Begg -
There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.
-- Alistair Begg -
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
-- Allen Tate -
Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!
-- Alvin Boyd Kuhn -
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.
-- Amartya Sen -
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.
-- Amy Grant -
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
-- Anatole France -
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
-- Andre Malraux -
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
-- Andy Griffith -
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.
-- Andy Rooney -
There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
-- Andy Rooney -
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
-- Angelus Silesius -
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
-- Angelus Silesius -
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
-- Angelus Silesius -
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
-- Anita Diament -
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
-- Ann Coulter -
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
-- Annie Dillard -
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 -
The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
-- Annie Laurie Gaylor -
Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -
A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.
-- Anthony Weiner -
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The body of scientific evidence supporting creation science is as strong as that supporting evolution. In fact, it may be stronger.... The evidence for evolution is far less compelling than we have been led to believe. Evolution is not a scientific fact, since it cannot actually be observed in a laboratory. Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or guess.... It is a very bad guess at that. The scientific problems with evolution are so serious that it could accurately be termed a myth.
-- Antonin Scalia -
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
-- Aristophanes -
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
-- Aristotle
