| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Allt är möjligt för den som tror. | Bible |
| Avskaffar vi religionsundervisningen, riskerar vi att ungarna blir religiösa. | Helge Krog (1889-1962) |
| De kristna har varit de mest intoleranta av alla människor | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Det gäller inte att få in himlen i huvudet, men att få in huvudet in i himlen. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Det är en kärleksfull Gud, som leder allt till det bästa. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Det är slut med prästerna och gudarna när människan blir vetenskaplig. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| En ateist är en person, som hoppas att Gud inte kommer att störa hans brist på tro. | Franklin P. Jones (1887-1929) |
| Existentialismen är inte så ateistisk att den glider upp i ett bevis av att Gud inte existerar. Däremot erkänner den att även om Gud existerade, så skulle det inte förändra något. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Folk som vill dela sina religiösa åsikter med dig, vill nästan aldrig att du delar dina religiösa åsikter med dem. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Gud ger till alla som stiger upp tidigt. | Anna Kournikova (1981-) |
| Gud är elak, ibland låter han oss leva. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| Gud är en komiker som åskådarna inte vågar skratta åt. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Gud, om det finns en Gud: Fräls min själ, om jag har en själ. | Ernest Renan (1823-1892) |
| Gud, välsigna ateisterna. | Graffiti |
| Guds ord är värdefulla, men kostar inget. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Hur många övergrepp har väl inte begåtts i religionens namn | Lucrets (99 f.Kr.-55 f.Kr.) |
| Hur är det nu, är människan ett av Guds misstag eller är Gud ett av människans? | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| I himlen är en ängel inte något märkvärdigt. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Jag hoppas att jag aldrig blir så gammal att jag blir religiös. | Ingmar Bergman (1918-) |
| Jag känner mig inte tvingad att tro på att den Gud som gav oss sinnerna, förnuften och intellektet, förväntar sig av oss att vi skall avstå från att använda det. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Jag såg en puritan hänga sin katt på måndagen för att den dödat en mus på söndagen. | James Bramston |
| Jag vill veta hur Gud tänkte, resten är bara detaljer. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Lejonet och lammet ska ligga tillsammans, men lammet kommer inte att få mycket sömn. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Min religion är vänlighet. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Många vill överta helgdagarna och ingenting annat från religionerna. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Människorna föraktar religionen. De hatar den och fruktar att den ska vara sann. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| När man respekterar religionen ska man också hålla den utanför så många områden som möjligt. | Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) |
| När religionen i ett land vacklar, vacklar den inte ensam. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| Och Gud sa: Varde ljus! Och det blev ljust. | Bible |
| Om det fanns flera gudar, hur kunde jag uthärda att inte vara en gud. Följaktligen finns det inga gudar. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Om man bara hade lytt till guds talande i människans hjärta, skulle det aldrig varit mer än en religion på jorden. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Om man skall göra något, bör man göra det ordentligt. Om man skall vara kristen kan man lika gärna vara katolik | Muriel Spark (1918-) |
| Religion är det man gör och inte det man tror | Max Tau (1896-1976) |
| Religion är det som håller fattiga från att döda de rika. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Religion är ett system av önskedrömmar som ska täcka över den hårda verkligheten. | Arnulf Overland |
| Religion är opium för folket. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| religionen är som ett opium för folket | Lord Melbourne (1779-1848) |
| Sedan Exodus har frihet alltid sagts med judisk accent. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Ska jag ta vara på min bror? | Bible |
| Så mycket kärlek och godhet finns inte här i världen att man har rätt att slösa bort dem på uppdiktade väsen. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Ta något som liknar politik - religion. Vad har hänt med religionen sedan TV tog sig an den? Den har degenererat till söndagsshow där Shirley Bassey sjunger Ave Maria. | Joe Ashton |
| Testen på en bra religion är om man kan skoja om den. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Varken som moralkod eller som religion har kristendomen någon kontakt med tingen som de verkligen är. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Vem säger att jag inte står under speciellt beskydd av Gud? | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Vi har tillräckligt med religion för att hata, men inte tillräckligt för att få oss att älska varandra. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Är det inte märkligt att folk så gärna kämpar för religionen och så ogärna lever efter dess föreskrifter? | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Den største vanskeligheten mellom nasjonene er gjerne at de ikke greier å bli enig om hvem som er Muhammed og hvem som er berget. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Kristendom er en religion for slaver og tåber, for de sidste skal blive de første og de første de sidste. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Hvordan kan vi egentlig vide, om Jorden ikke er en anden planets helvede? | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Det gennemsnitlige menneske, som ikke ved, hvad han skal gøre med sit liv, drømmer om et andet liv, der varer evigt | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Hvad en kristen gør, er hans eget ansvar. Hvad en jøde gør, falder tilbage på alle jøder. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| Religion er ligesom ildfluer. De kræver mørke for at lyse. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Præsten kan forklare mig at den brede vej, den lige vej, den mindste anstrengelses vej, ikke er andet end et fald lige lukt ned i Helvede. | Asger Jorn |
| Ja, jeg er jøde, og da de højtærede herrers forfædre var brutale vilde i et ukendt land, var mine præster i Salomons tempel | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| At verden er i en dårlig forfatning er ubestrideligt, men der er ikke det ringeste historiske belæg for antagelsen at kristendom er svaret. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Så vidt jeg erindrer, er der ikke ét eneste ord i den hellige skrift, der roser intelligens | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Jeg er tilhænger af alle religioner. Jeg ville ikke bryde mig om at tabe det evige liv på grund af en teknisk detalje | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| De børn, der skal døbes, skal have en lang kjole på, selv om de er drenge. De er for små til at grine af det. | Børn |
| De små profeter er mellem fem og ti år gamle. | Børn |
| En dame, jeg kender, er så kristen, at det hedder religiøs. Hun er lige så from som en kat. | Børn |
| En discipel er en slags æsel. | Børn |
| Hvis man lægger sig på knæ oppe ved hegnet indtil præsten, får man hundekiks. | Børn |
| Jeg har en hund som tror på Gud. | Børn |
| Jeg har spist en discipel engang, men den smagte ikke særlig godt. | Børn |
| Jeg tror, det var én, der hed Mogens, som lavede de ti bud. | Børn |
| Når klokken er 12 vender alle sig mod Mekka og bider i kvasterne på tæppet. | Børn |
| Når nogen dør, bliver de lagt ned i jorden, og så siger præsten: Af jord er du kommet og der skal du blive. Så tømmer han en spand Jord i hovedet på dig. | Børn |
| Præsten klæder sig ofte i Adams pragt. Han læser fra Bibelen og synger Ære være Gud i øjet. | Børn |
| Præster skal bl.a. være med til fødsel og dåb og konspiration og begravelse. | Børn |
| Reeza tror ikke på Gud, han tror på Allan. | Børn |
| En del kristne er mere kristne end de er mennesker. | Carl Erik Soya (1896-1983) |
| Jeg er agnostiker; jeg foregiver ikke at vide, hvad mange uvidende mennesker er sikre på. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| Far ventede en hel del af Gud. Han anklagede ikke ligefrem Gud for manglende effektivitet, men når han bad, var hans stemme høj og vred, som hos en gæst på et dårligt drevet hotel. | Clarence Day (1874-1935) |
| Kristendom å la Kierkegaard: Hårdt arbejde. Ingen ferie eller fritid. Løn: utænkelig | Dan Turèll |
| Jeg har kun et lille blafrende lys til at lede mig gennem mørket i en tæt skov. Og kommer en teolog og blæser det ud. | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| At kalde ateisme for en religion er som at kalde skaldethed for en hårfarve. | Don Hirschberg |
| Himlen er den kristne variant af et tivoli. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Jeg tillader mig at sige, at Gud ikke eksisterer. Det er ikke noget, jeg tror, det er noget, jeg ved. Til gengæld ved jeg også, at troen på Gud eksisterer. | Erik Clausen |
| En smule filosofi gør en mand til ateist, men fordybelse i filosofi fører frem til religion. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Hvis Gud ikke eksisterede, ville det være nødvendigt at opfinde ham, men hele naturen råber til os, at han eksisterer. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Den kristne forudsætning om, at verden er frastødende og ussel, har gjort verden frastødende og ussel. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Når Gud er død, må de stærke blandt menneskene selv blive guder, overmennesker, livsbekræftende, leende, dansende, usårlige. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| At høre nonner skrifte er som at blive stenet til døde med popcorn. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| I Virkeligheden har Masserne altid Religion, fordi enhver Overbevisning, der bibringes dem, for dem bliver Religion, det vil sige hverken betvivles eller drøftes. | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| Det kendsgerning, at en troende er lykkeligere end en skeptiker, har ikke større betydning for sagen end, at en beruset mand er lykkeligere end en ædru | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Jeg var fritænker, før jeg vidste, hvordan man skal tænke. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Det er nu ganske lovligt for en katolsk kvinde at undgå graviditet ved hjælp at matematik, men det er stadig forbudt at bruge fysik og kemi. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Man må respektere sit medmenneskes religion, men kun ligesom vi respekterer hans teori om, at hans kone er smuk, og at hans børn er kvikke. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Religion er en fundamental modsætning til alt hvad jeg agter højt - mod, klarhed i tanke, ærlighed, retfærdighed og sidst men ikke mindst, kærlighed til sandhed. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Menneskelig elendighed er for stor for mennesker uden tro | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Hva' nu hvis vi har valgt den forkerte gud? Hver gang vi går i kirke, gør vi ham bare mere og mere sur. | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| Tvivl er en del af alle religioner. Alle religiøse tænkere var tvivlere. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| At være selvisk er den eneste virkelige gudløshed, at være uselvisk er den eneste virkelige religion. | Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) |
| Hvad livet amputerer fra os, vokser ud igen som religion. | Jacob Paludan (1896-1975) |
| Da jeg blev professionel soldat, meldte jeg mig af respekt for de ti bud ud af folkekirken, og meldte mig siden ind igen. | Jens Okking |
| Politikere kan planlægge hvordan friheden skal indrettes, men religion og moral er de eneste principper, som friheden kan bygge på. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| De frelste står ikke til at redde. | John Engelbrecht |
| De fleste mennesker har en slags religion. I hvert fald ved de, hvilken kirke de ikke bryder sig om. | John Erskine (1879-1951) |
| Hvis kristne var kristne, ville der ikke være nogen antisemitisme. Jesus var jøde. Der er intet som den almindelige kristne afskyr som at erindre denne kedelige historiske kendsgerning. | John Haynes Holmes |
| Jesus døde for vore synder. Skal vi så virkelig gøre hans martyrium meningsløst ved ikke at begå dem? | Jules Feiffer (1929-) |
| Jeg ved ikke, om Gud eksisterer, men det ville være bedst for hans rygte, hvis han ikke gjorde. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Religion er opium for folket! | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Hvad du ikke ønsker gjort mod dig selv, gør ikke det mod andre | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Videnskab uden religion er lam. Religion uden videnskab er blind.Historien er summen af alle de ting, som kunne have været undgået. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Glæden ved at tilgive er sødere end glæden ved hævn. | Hadith |
| Hvis du hører, at et bjerg har flyttet sig, tro det. Hvis du hører, at en mand har skiftet karakter, tro det ikke. | Hadith |
| At gå i kirke vil ikke gøre dig kristen, ikke mere end at gå på værksted vil gøre dig til en bil. | Laurence J. Peter (1919-) |
| Hvorledes kan det være, at når vi taler med Gud, så beder vi, men når Gud taler til os, så er vi schizofrene? | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| Jeg er stadigvæk ateist. Gud ske tak og lov | Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) |
| Hvis jeg skulle konvertere, ville jeg sandsynligvis vælge katolicismen, De har i det mindste kvindelige helgener og jomfru Maria. | Margaret Atwood (1939-) |
| Det kan være svært at tro på Gud, og det er ikke lettere at tro på mennesket. | Margot Asquith |
| Det er ikke den del af biblen, jeg kan forstå, som bekymrer mig - det er de dele, jeg kan forstå | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Et af beviserne på sjælens udødelighed er, at myriader af mennesker har troet på det -- de troede også, at jorden er flad | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Når man vælger Jesus som ideal, overanstrenger man let sin moral. | Mikael Rode |
| Religion er det, der afholder de fattige fra at myrde de rige. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Et fornuftigt menneske forlanger ingen fornuftig religion. Han går ud fra, at der er dybder hos Gud, han ikke magter at lodde. | Olfert Ricard |
| Hvorfor vil du altid tro på din tvivl og tvivle på din tro? Tvivl engang imellem lidt på din tvivl, og tro lidt på din tro. | Olfert Ricard |
| Jeg beder ikke, for jeg vil ikke kede Gud. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| Jeg synes undertiden, at Gud, da han skabte mennesket, i nogen grad overvurderede sine evner. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Religion er den moderne erstatning for tro. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Hvis Gud har talt, hvorfor er verden så ikke overbevist? | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| Troen har aldrig flyttet en knappenål fra det sted, hvor den ifølge traditionens og skriftens ord bør sidde. Det er tvivlen, der har flyttet alle bjergene. | Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) |
| Jeg tror på Vorherre, min familie og McDonald's. På arbejde er rækkefølgen omvendt. | Ray Kroc (1902-1984) |
| Hvad venter vi af en religion, hvis vi udelukker medlidenhed med dyrene? | Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
| Når man læser Det Gamle testamente, erkender man, at vore forfædre vidste langt mere om seksualiteten, end vi gør. | Dr. Ruth Westheimer (1928-) |
| Den, som har kirken til moder, har ikke Gud til fader. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Blasfemilove bør afskaffes. Det ville være en sær gud, som har behov for at blive beskyttet af loven | Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
| Religion er en illusion, og den opnår sin styrke fra den vilighed til at tilpasse sig vores instinktive ønskeimpulser | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Jeg kan ikke være vred på en Gud, som jeg ikke tror på. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| Nej, jeg kan ikke bebrejde Gud, eftersom jeg ikke tror på ham. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| Et er at lide, et andet er at blive professor i, at en anden led. | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Kristendommen er forkyndelse af sandheden, men sandheden kan der ikke stemmes om. Den kan kun adlydes. | Søren Krarup |
| Ak ja, hvem der kendte Guds privatadresse. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Men måske er det Gud, som har udvalgt mig til at være ateist. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Spørg ikke Gud om vejen til himmelen, han viser dig bare den længste vej. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Religiøs forfølgelse er til alle tider blevet udført på Guds påståede kommando. | Susan B. Anthony |
| Alle ting er fulde af guder. | Thales of Miletus |
| Sig til de troende kvinder, at de skal sænke blikket og være blufærdige, at de kun skal vise den del af deres skønhed, som er åbenbar, og at de skal trække sløret sammen over deres bryst. | The Koran |
| Enhver religion er god, som lærer os at være gode. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Når mennesket holder op med at tro på Gud, betyder det ikke, at de ikke tror på noget som helst, de tror på hvad som helst. | Umberto Eco (1932-) |
| Et Folk uden religion står i den yderste dødsfare. | Vilhelm Grønbech |
| Religion er Livet selv i dets højeste potens. | Vilhelm Grønbech |
| Vor historie er bestemt af at vi er kristne; vort syn på andre mennesker er givet med den kultur vi er opvokset i. Vor kultur, vor religion er det rigtige, alt andet er mangelfuldt eller galt. | Vilhelm Grønbech |
| Den bedste måde at kende Gud på er at elske mange ting. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| I aftes læste jeg Jobs Bog - jeg synes ikke, at Gud slap så godt fra det. | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| Jøderne og araberne skulle sætte sig ned sammen og forsøge at løse deres problemer som gode kristne. | Warren Austin |
| Det er tåbelig afgudsdyrkelse at gøre gudstjenester vigtigere end Gud | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Hvad fluer er for kåde dreng, er vi for guderne; de dræber os for morskab | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Jeg er beredt til at møde min skaber. Om han er beredt til at møde mig er en anden ting. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| For dig er jeg ateist; for Gud er jeg hans loyale opposition. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Hvis bare Gud ville give mig et rigtigt tegn. For eksempel åbne en mægtig konto til mig i Schweiz. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Ikke nok med at der ikke findes nogen Gud! Prøv at få fat i en blikkenslager i weekenden. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Jeg går altid med et projektil i brystlommen. Det kunne redde mit liv, hvis nogen skulle smide en bibel efter mig. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| 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 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle. | Alexander Pope (1688-1744) |
| If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. | Alexandre Dumas d.y. (1824-1895) |
| Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion. | Andre Suares |
| If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. | Andrew Young (1932-) |
| If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life. | Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) |
| Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good. | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. | Auguste Comte (1798-) |
| Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. | Beverly Sills (1929-) |
| All works are accomplished by the qualities of nature. The ignorant feel they are the doer because of their ego. | Bhagavad Gita |
| As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. | Bhagavad Gita |
| As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body. | Bhagavad Gita |
| The five factors which accomplish all actions are - the scene of action i.e. the body, the doer, the instruments or the sensory organs or the faculties, the efforts i.e. the motions or the impulses, and providence i.e. the divine factors. | Bhagavad Gita |
| Though creator of this existence you should understand me as one who does not do anything. | Bhagavad Gita |
| When one does not see the doer but sees only the qualities of nature performing their acts truly attains my being. | Bhagavad Gita |
| Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Mange vil fra religionerne kun overtage helligdagene | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. | Brendan Behan (1923-1964) |
| A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. | Brigham Young (1801-1877) |
| 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. | Brigham Young (1801-1877) |
| Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull | Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993) |
| We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| My religion is kindness. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. (This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print). | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. | Don Hirschberg |
| If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. | Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) |
| Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world? | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Christianity must be divine, since it lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dreamThat this watch exists and has no watchmaker. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| To belive in God is impossible - not to believe in him is absurd. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. | Franklin P. Jones (1887-1929) |
| Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. | Fred Allen (1894-1956) |
| The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. | Fred Allen (1894-1956) |
| Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand | Frederick The Great |
| All the gods are dead; so now we want the Superman to live. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed Him! | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| One has to pay dearly for immorality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has made the world evil and ugly. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Good words are worth much, and cost little. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. | Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) |
| It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Human misery is too great for men to do without faith | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Human life is that great school where men reduce to practice the teachings of the church. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God | Heywood Brown |
| God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| I hope I never get so old I get religious. | Ingmar Bergman (1918-) |
| Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. | Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) |
| Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love each other | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. | Joseph Marie de Maistre (1753-1821) |
| I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. | Josephine Baker (1906-1975) |
| Religion is the opium of the masses. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Religion is the sigh of the opressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, the soul of soulless circumstances. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. | Laurence J. Peter (1919-) |
| If Christ had died in the 20th century, Catholics would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks. | Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) |
| Theology is Anthropology. | Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach |
| If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. | Margaret Atwood (1939-) |
| Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Religions are the cradles of despotism. | Marquis De Sade (1740-1814) |
| To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. | Marquis De Sade (1740-1814) |
| The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| Absence of proof is not proof of absence. | Michael Crichton (1942-) |
| Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there | Mohammed Neguib |
| A sensible person will not demand a religion that makes sense. He will assume that God moves in ways which he cannot fathom. | Olfert Ricard |
| I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
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| The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. | Proverbs, Israel |
| God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly. | Proverbs, Turkey |
| Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. | Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) |
| I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album. | Rita Rudner (1955-) |
| History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| I would know you God, I would know myself. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the | Stephen King (1947-) |
| A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. | Thomas Becket |
| If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish | Timothy Jones |
| When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. | Umberto Eco (1932-) |
| The best way to know God is to love many things. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes well out of it. | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretences. | William A. Sunday (1863-1935) |
| Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values | Allen Tate (1899-) |
| I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause | Al Medwin |
| There are no heresies in a dead religion | Andre Suares |
| There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. | Anna Sewell (1820-1878) |
| Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" | Annie Dillard (1945-) |
| If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism | August Bebel |
| Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. | Austin Farrer |
| It should be made clear that in order to live a Christian life, any Christian must be able to discriminate and hate, because that's what the bible says | Bernhard Kuiper |
| When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. | Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931-) |
| We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ | Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) |
| We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. | David Jerold |
| A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism | Donald Morgan |
| Moral: A peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deuteronomy 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord | Donald Morgan |
| You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. | Dr. Cyril Clarke |
| If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. | Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) |
| It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so | Ernestine Rose |
| Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. | Ernest Renan (1823-1892) |
| It is easy to become a monk in one's old age | Ethiopian Proverb |
| No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state | Felix Adler (1851-1933) |
| Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. | Franz Werfel (1890-1945) |
| Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. | Frederick Buechner (1926-) |
| Sects, sects, sects! That's all you religion majors ever think about | Garth Snyder |
| Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. | Gen David M. Shoup |
| Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice | Georges Bizet (1838-) |
| Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man | George Gaylord Simpson |
| The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world | Georgia Harkness |
| When you can get people to believe in virgin birth and resurrection of the dead as reality - well, what can one say | Grace McGarvie |
| Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. | Gurdjieff (1866-) |
| Allah is its goal, the prophet is its model, the Koran is its constitution, jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is its most coveted desire | Hamas Motto |
| Religions change, but beer and wine remain | Harvey Allen (1889-1949) |
| More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. | Harvey Milk (1930-) |
| Religion is the highest vanity. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| The trouble with born again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around | Herb Caen (1916-1997) |
| Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth | Herman Wouk (1915-) |
| In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart. | Hillary Clinton (1947-2001) |
| I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. | Howard Stern (1954-) |
| Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache | Hungarian Proverb |
| People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. | Irving Kristol |
| Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles | James D. Watson (1928-) |
| The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| [The] council not only sanctioned reform, it accelerated it. What this meant was that Catholics tried to solve the riddle of religion and modernity overnight. | Jay P. Dolan |
| Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord | Jay Sekulow |
| Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. | Jesse Ventura (1952-) |
| It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host | Jim Bakker (1939-) |
| She doesn't want to touch it. She doesn't want to smell it. She doesn't want to hear it. Lord love her. She's a Mail Order Freak. | Jim Fishel |
| All religions die of one disease - that of being found out | John, Lord Morley |
| This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they ar | John Fowles (1926-) |
| Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism | John Haynes Holmes |
| The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws | John Macy |
| If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the band of Atheists | John Tyndall |
| This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people | John Wycliffe |
| Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| No pope ever condemned slavery | Joseph McCabe |
| The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establis | Joseph Story (1779-) |
| Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone | Karl Barth (1886-1968) |
| Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Religion; humanity's greatest folly, greatest curse | Kevin Harris |
| Search yourself, and you will find Allah | Kurdish Proverb |
| One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist. | L.J. Suenens |
| Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. | Lemuel K. Washburn |
| 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 (1925-1966) |
| Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. | Leon Lederman |
| The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion | Lord Hailsham (1872-1950) |
| The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. | Lynn Lavner |
| Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea | Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
| The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral once a firm foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly. | Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine |
| There is a place in God's sun for the youth 'farthest down' who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it. | Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) |
| The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity | Matthew Henry |
| I keep hearing that Jesus Christ is coming, but nobody knows his tour dates | Michael Lucas |
| Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. | Mohammed Naguib |
| If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but utterly fanatical outbreak known as the Crusades could not have taken place, for they were based on a | Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall |
| While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around | Nahum Tate |
| Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter incest motif | Naomi Goodman |
| That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror | Owen Rowley |
| It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| There was no south, there was no north, no east and no west-just the 11 apostles. | Paul J. F. Lusaka |
| The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb | Peter Medawar |
| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder | Pope John Paul I (1912-1978) |
| The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies. | Raymond Sokolov |
| I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. | Richard Dawkins |
| A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God | Robert Hall (1970-) |
| Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error | Robert Owen (1771-1858) |
| The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the 20th. | S. H. Miller |
| Religion reveals itself in struggling to reveal the meaning of the world. | S. H. Miller |
| We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides | Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) |
| Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. | St. Francis of Assisi |
| All Bibles are man-made | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed. | William Cobbett (1763-1835) |
| God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill | William Gurnall |
| He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers | Zoroaster |
| 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 (1882-1956) |
| More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion | Alexander Chase |
| Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace | Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) |
| I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The greatest religions convert the world through stories. | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. (Psalms 32:10) | Bible |
| The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. | Brendan Behan (1923-1964) |
| Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. | Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993) |
| I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within | Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God. | Christina Aguilera (1980-) |
| When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit | David Lloyd George (1863-1945) |
| I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage. | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) |
| When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. | Frederick The Great |
| And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Religion is just mind control | George Carlin (1937-) |
| It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| A religion without mystery must be a religion without God | Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) |
| Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from | John Erskine (1879-1951) |
| We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| And their prayer before the House is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands; taste then the chastisement, for you disbelieved. (The Accessions 8.35) | Hadith |
| The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me? I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss why are you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even. They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again. | Mike Tyson (1966-) |
| Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to th | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. | Paul Tillich (1886-1965) |
| There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on Americ | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. | Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) |
| We exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge. | Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) |
| You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. | Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) |
| The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. | Richard Burton (1925-1984) |
| One religion is as true as another | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. | Robert H. Jackson |
| Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. | Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-) |
| There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. | Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) |
| When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off | Stephen King (1947-) |
| The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| "[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism." | Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) |
| Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then | Tom Lehrer (1928-) |
| Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe | William Howard Taft (1857-1930) |
| The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical | William Shenstone (1714-1763) |
| We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. | Larry Flynt (1942-) |
| I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness… | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so | Ernestine Rose |
| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism | Donald Morgan |
| Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. | Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) |
| Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| We found that we didn't have much problem with him [Jesus Christ], it was his followers we found questionable" | Monty Python |
| God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance. | Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) |
| 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 (1908-1970) |
| Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: - by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| Organized religion is always having to say you're sorry for misunderstanding God's will in the past. That has been the history of organized religion. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| When you give religiously inspired zealots weapons of mass destruction and you promise them that if they kill innocent people they will go to heaven, imagine what the consequences are. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion | Alexander Chase |
| Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Religion is the last refuge of human savagery | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust down the pants of an adolescent child. I don’t want to hear it. | Anthony Beal |
| Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.i.e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion. | Anthony Storr |
| It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| Frank: All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Arthur: Christianity, of course, but why journalism? | Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) |
| Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism | August Bebel |
| Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year | Austin O'Malley |
| The greatest religions convert the world through stories. | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support, itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always the e | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by sceptics | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man | Bible |
| The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit | Bible |
| Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (Hebrews 13:18) | Bible |
| Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. (Psalms 52:7) | Bible |
| Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God | Bible |
| And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. (Psalms 9:10) | Bible |
| A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house | Bible |
| Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name | Bible |
| But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. (Psalms 52:8) | Bible |
| Be careful for nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. (Philippians 4:6) | Bible |
| Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief | Bible |
| The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. | Bible |
| The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord | Bible |
| Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase; so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine | Bible |
| Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father | Bible |
| The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner | Bible |
| Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies (Psalms 103:4). | Bible |
| Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psalms 41:9) | Bible |
| The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God | Bible |
| Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep | Bible |
| Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you | Bible |
| For just as a body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead | Bible |
| And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor to be with you forever | Bible |
| Moses said to the Lord, "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, 'Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy | Bible |
| And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven | Bible |
| Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me (John 5:39). | Bible |
| The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel (Joel 3:16). | Bible |
| The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. (Psalms 6:9) | Bible |
| In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psalms 11:1) | Bible |
| Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich. | Bible |
| Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly. (Job 4:18) | Bible |
| Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. (1 Corinthians 7:5) | Bible |
| As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: He is a buckler to all those that trust in Him. (Psalms 18:30) | Bible |
| And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9). | Bible |
| He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. (Proverbs 28:9) | Bible |
| Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. (Isaiah 38:5) | Bible |
| Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. (Hosea 10:13) | Bible |
| Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield. (Psalms 115:11) | Bible |
| Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit (Job 10:12). | Bible |
| But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord | Bible |
| It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God | Bible |
| Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh | Bible |
| Make a joyful noise unto the Lord | Bible |
| Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 7:15) | Bible |
| And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8). | Bible |
| A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22) | Bible |
| O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: (Psalms 7:1) | Bible |
| Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3) | Bible |
| He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. (2 Kings 18:5) | Bible |
| And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness (Romans 8:10). | Bible |
| And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. (Mark 9:29) | Bible |
| But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7) | Bible |
| Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord | Bible |
| And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelations 5:8) | Bible |
| If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us | Bible |
| Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (Matthew 23:14) | Bible |
| Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| I think religion is bad and drugs are good. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| That’s why I don’t have a religion. I don’t want to have to say that, okay, I agree with everything a guy says. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| Like it or not, we’re still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| I don't stand for the black man's side, I don't stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| And now, my beloved brethren, and also aJew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and bbelieve in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall cbelieve• in Christ ye will believe in these dwords, for they are the ewords• of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and they fteach• all men that they should do good.And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show unto you, with apower• and great bglory, that they are his words, at the last day; and you and I shall stand face to face before his bar; and ye shall know that I have been commanded of him to write these things, notwithstanding my weakness.And I pray the Father in the name of Christ that many of us, if not all, may be saved in his akingdom at that great and last day. | Book of Mormon |
| The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. | Brendan Behan (1923-1964) |
| Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel usinto unity, by persecution even and hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in thehand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God:Judas and Satan as tools or instruments, John and Peter as sons. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing thatpeople often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moralteacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing wemust not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesussaid would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on alevel with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be theDevil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, theSon of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for afool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at Hisfeet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronisingnonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism.The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of men. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, charity- these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of Divine Grace. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. | Cathy Ladman (1955-) |
| I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power | Catullus |
| In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the lower animals. It is, however, impossible to maintain that this belief is instinctive in man. The idea of a universal and beneficent creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man until he has been elevated by long, continued culture. | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| He who carves the Buddha never worships him | Chinese Proverbs |
| Matthew, Chapter Twenty-four, Verse Thirteen“But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.” | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want? | Conor Oberst |
| The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual. | Cornel West |
| Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| This new concept ought to be elaborated alongside the religions, in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it. We ought to promote this concept with the help of scientists. It could lead us to what we are looking for. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such | Dan Castellaneta (1958-) |
| Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle. | Diane LaVey |
| A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswervingly believes in me. | E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981) |
| All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Where mystery begins religion ends. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| God has delivered yourself to your care, and says: "I had no fitter to trust than you | Epictetus (55-135) |
| 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 (1902-1983) |
| Atheism, the same than religion, can be cause of conviction or gregarism. | Ezequiel D'Leon Masis |
| The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin. | Fritjof Capra |
| A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business. Congress can make "no law" respecting an establishment of religion. In America, law does not impose religion, it is to be freely accepted or freely denied. Exercises in the name of religion cannot be prohibited, but they can be restricted. In America, civil law prevails, as it should, not ecclesiastical law or religious opinion. Religion is a matter of opinion. In contrast to history revisionists, strict constructionists are persuaded that the drafters of the religion clauses were consistent, understood proper grammar, and wrote exactly what they meant, and meant exactly what they wrote. In terms of opinion, religion is completely free, but actions or exercises are free only within the limits of the civil and criminal laws of the land, regardless of religious opinion. Religion, however you choose to define it, is not above the law. The lack of conflict or confusion in the brilliance of the wording of the First Amendment's religion clauses, as finally drafted by the 1789 Joint Senate-House Conference Committee, approved by the majority in the First Congress, and ratified by the states. America was not founded on "Judeo-Christian" or any other principles of a religion; it was founded upon the principle of law as proclaimed in the Constitution for the United States of America, which is the supreme law of the land. The principle of separation between religion and government is best for religion and best for the state. | Gene Garman |
| If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Hell is full of musical amateurs. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Bibles laid open, millions of surprises | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| When we think of life's complexities, it’s pressures and it’s disarray, we find that the best investment is to take the time to pray! | Gillis Triplett |
| The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us, and cannot be contradicted, then how could anyone possibly contradict laws of conduct set forth by that being? | Gregory Wallace Campbell |
| The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness | Hannah Moore |
| Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the world. Bad religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to look down on the people of the world because they are not as good as God is. | Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt |
| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| The more the history of the church comes to light, the darker it gets. | Heinrich Wiesner |
| The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - He first individualizes | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| "Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen." - Homer Simpson | Homer Simpson (1955-) |
| If we work less, wear less, and eat less, we will be more wealthy, healthy, and wise. | Hugh Nibley (1910-) |
| Better to dig one deep well than 10 shallow ones. | Indian Proverb |
| The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground. | Irish Proverb |
| He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. | J. D. Salinger (1919-) |
| Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| A religion without mystery must be a religion without God | Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) |
| All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. | Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) |
| Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life | Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) |
| It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host | Jim Bakker (1939-) |
| You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. | Jimmy Carter (1924-2002) |
| I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement. | John C. Danforth |
| Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements | John Calvin (1509-1564) |
| Imagine God to be at play with us, but a gamester... | John Donne (1572-1631) |
| This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people | John Wycliffe |
| And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and meaning of eternity, I have nonetheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we go here, and why – which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive. | Jon Krakauer |
| ...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
| That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover• our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion• or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw• themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved | Joseph Smith |
| The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Religion is the opium of the masses. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being. | Kate Miller |
| Believing in god is akin to being in love. No one can tell you, you just have know through and through balls to bones. | Kyle Chapman |
| Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| If you really want to make big money, start a religion. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| The Tao [Way] that can be told of is not the eternal Tao;The name that can be named is not the eternal name.The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;The Named is the mother of all things.Therefore, let there always be non-being, so we may see their subtlety,And let there always be being, so we may see their outcome.The two are the same,But after they are produced, they have different names.They both may be called deep and profound.Deeper and more profound,The door of all subtleties! | Lao Tzu |
| I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History. | Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) |
| It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy. | Madeleine Albright |
| God has no religion | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| 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 | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If there is a God, he is a malign thug | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I don’t like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found. | Martin Buber (1878-1965) |
| The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. | Mary Worley Montagu |
| The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. | Matthew Henry |
| All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you'? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary, | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
| It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should b | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
| I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars. | Mike Dirnt (1972-) |
| In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self. | Mohandas Gandhi |
| Ahimsa [infinite love] is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the summum bonum of life. It is an attitude of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the reach of a coward. It is no wooden or lifeless dogma but a living and lifegiving force. It is the special attribute of the soul. | Mohandas Gandhi |
| It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. | Mohandas Gandhi |
| To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too. | Mohandas Gandhi |
| Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Whoso hath left debt and children, let him come to me; I am their patron, I will discharge his debt and befriend his children | Muhammad |
| Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. | Nathanael Greene |
| Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ. | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. | Oswald Chambers |
| That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror | Owen Rowley |
| It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapors of animals. The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son. The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite | Paul-Henri Thiry |
| It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) |
| When you look at organized religion of whatever sort – whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism – wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law. | Philip Pullman (1946-) |
| It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| The Roman Church has never erred, and, according to the scripture, never shall err. | Pope Gregory Vii |
| When one is in trouble, one remembers God. | Proverb |
| Keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and whatever good you send before for yourselves, you shall find it with Allah; surely Allah sees what you do. (The Cow 2.110) | quran |
| Men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts from the remembrance of Allah and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of poor-rate; they fear a day in which the hearts and eyes shall turn about. (The Light 24.37) | quran |
| And when My servants ask you concerning Me, then surely I am very near; I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My call and believe in Me that they may walk in the right way. (The Cow 2.186) | quran |
| And when you are among them and keep up the prayer for them, let a party of them stand up with you, and let them take their arms; then when they have prostrated themselves let them go to your rear, and let another party who have not prayed come forwa | quran |
| And those who respond to their Lord and keep up prayer, and their rule is to take counsel among themselves, and who spend out of what We have given them. (The Counsel 42.38) | quran |
| And We made them Imams who guided (people) by Our command, and We revealed to them the doing of good and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of the alms, and Us (alone) did they serve. (The Prophets 21.73) | quran |
| And they were not enjoined anything except that they should serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, upright, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and that is the right religion. (The Clear Evidence 98.5) | quran |
| And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed, verifying that which is before it, and that you may warn the metropolis and those around her; and those who believe in the hereafter believe in it, and they attend to their prayers constantly. (The Cattle | quran |
| And of the dwellers of the desert are those who believe in Allah and the latter day and take what they spend to be (means of) the nearness of Allah And as for the foremost, the first of the Muhajirs and the Ansars... | quran |
| Only he shall visit the mosques of Allah who believes in Allah and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate and fears none but Allah; so (as for) these, it may be that they are of the followers of the right course. (The Immunity 9.1 | quran |
| O you who believe! when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles; and if you are under an obligation to perform a total ablution, then wash (yourselves) and if you are sick or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy, or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth and wipe your faces and your hands therewith, Allah does not desire to put on you any difficulty, but He wishes to purify you and that He may complete His favor on you, so that you may be grateful. | quran |
| O you who believe! let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to puberty ask permission of you three times; before the morning prayer, and when you put off your clothes at midday in summer, and after the prayer of the n | quran |
| O you who believe! call to witness between you when death draws nigh to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just persons from among you, or two others from among others than you, if you are travelling in the land and the calamity of death | quran |
| And among His Signs Is the creation of the heavens And the earth, and the variations In your languages And your colors; verily In that are Signs For those who know | quran |
| And We revealed to Musa and his brother, saying: Take for your people houses to abide in Egypt and make your houses places of worship and keep up prayer and give good news to the believers. (Jonah 10.87) | quran |
| Only Allah is your Vali and His Apostle and those who believe, those who keep up prayers and pay the poor-rate while they bow. (The Dinner Table 5.55) | quran |
| Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer; surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do. (The Spider 29.45) | quran |
| Attend constantly to prayers and to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Allah. (The Cow 2.238) | quran |
| Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of the race | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| What has religion to do with facts? Nothing | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| God is living in the circle of eternity, and we the [straight] line cut from the world must be hammered, bent and broken, to be re-forged into His circle. | Robert J. McCracken |
| I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. | Ronnie Shakes |
| Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| There is something wrong when critics say the problem with America is too much religion. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| For my part, Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in each year | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The derivation of a need for religion from the child’s feeling of helplessness and the longing it evokes for a father seems to me incontrovertible, especially since this feeling is not simply carried on from childhood days but is kept alive perpetually by the fear of what the superior power of fate will bring. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. | Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) |
| The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not 'What a lovely sermon' but, 'I will do something!' | St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) |
| Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. | St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
| On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists,lawyers, poets, plumbers,and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds cometogether to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Danceof Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft. | Starhawk |
| All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| The silent, lethal creep of apostasy began uneventfully. His quest for holiness had morphed into a mere pursuit of happiness. He never discerned it, nor would anyone else. He was a materialist now - just one of the well-respected selectmen who quelled controversy at the expense of progress..... | Steve Wallace |
| Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery. | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu's religion. | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| There is not the least use in preaching to anyone, unless you chance to catch them ill. | Sydney Smith (1771-) |
| I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Religion is all bunk. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Religion without Piety hath done more Mischief in the World, than all other Things put together. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Some are atheists only in fair weather | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I inquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate wit | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| But I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to him, and not to the priests. I never told my own religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives, and by this test, my dear Madam, I have been satisfied yours must be an excellent one, to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read. By the same test the world must judge me. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives... | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. | Thomas Kempis |
| Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living. | Thomas Kempis |
| [Christ] was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything? | Thomas Kempis |
| A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. | Thomas Kempis |
| Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me. | Thomas Kempis |
| Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back. | Thomas Kempis |
| Offer yourself to Me, and give yourself wholly for God, and your offering will be acceptable. | Thomas Kempis |
| The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighbor are nothing (3) That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith (4) That reason in religion | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The adulterous connection between church and state | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he [Joseph Smith] so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. ... May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley. | Thomas S. Monson (1927-) |
| The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both | Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) |
| With religions it's crucial, when reading labels, to verify whether or not the content is in each jar. | Vanna Bonta |
| A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right. | Vanna Bonta |
| How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace? | Vanna Bonta |
| 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. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| I'm religiously opposed to religion | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart | Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| Puts all Heaven in a Rage. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism | William James (1842-1910) |
| Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge | William James (1842-1910) |
| We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. | Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) |
| Religion is nothing else but love of God and man | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| To whom God will, there be the victory | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Jesters do oft prove prophets | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome." | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble | Yiddish Proverb |
| Kjenner man bare en religion, kjenner man den ikke. | Eilert Hubbard |
| Religion er folkets opium. | Karl Marx (1818-1883) |
| Religionen vår er som en oppskrift. Oppskriften alene er død. Maten bringer liv, oppskriften bare forteller hvordan du skal tilberede den. | Ranveig Sørensen |