Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna CicconeThe thing about religion is it seems that everyone has a slightly different conception of what it is and what it might mean to them.
James Frazer'Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.'
Karl MarxMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas PaineMorality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
AlainYou could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. [Then again you could say its due to medical and scientific improvement, and speak the truth]
Cyril ClarkeFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesA glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
John SeldenThere is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene IonescoI count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher MarloweSex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
Malcolm MuggeridgeReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceMy 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 LawrenceThe search for religion is the starting point of thought
Xu ZhimoReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauIt is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe 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 J LippmannReligion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul TillichWe cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.
Karl Wilhelm Von HumboldtOperationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. (Religion without Revelation, 1957)
Sir Julian HuxleyFor man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas HoodThink of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl SaganThe equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold ToynbeeReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of ChesterfieldGenius 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 MoreWe all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
Karl PopperIt is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight MoodyWe're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David BeckhamI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaDoubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac SingerAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas PaineLet us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert G IngersollBoxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce OatesPolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinJust 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 GatesA union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo BlackThe government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
George WashingtonDifference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell PhillipsIn the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert RuncieThe first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred AllenI'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Montgomery BurnsWe know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T S EliotI am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S EliotI love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil GibranI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard DawkinsTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeThe mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. [On the continued appeal of religion]
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