Motivational Quotes

Religion

Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Religion

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Huxley, Aldous

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

Stella Terrill Mann

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Shaw, George Bernard

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Frye, Northrop

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.

Marlowe, Christopher

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Arnold, Matthew

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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Young, Brigham

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

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Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Lewis, C. S.

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The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

Randy K. Milholland

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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Hoagland, Edward

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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Elizabeth Aston

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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes.

Rushdie, Salman

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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Proverb, Chinese

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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Einstein, Albert

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Pound, Ezra

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Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Henry, Patrick

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Inge, Dean William R.

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

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Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

Hubbard, Elbert

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

Herzen, Alexander

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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Martineau, Harriet

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And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

Ian McKellen

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Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Kraus, Karl

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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Quinet, Edgar

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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Sade, Marquis De

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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Twain, Mark

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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