Quotes About Religion

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Every once in a while, Momma would make me go to Sunday school with Joey. Even though it was just a bunch of singing and coloring in coloring books and listening to Mrs. Davidson, I had learned one thing. I learned about getting saved. I learned how someone could come to you when you were feeling real, real bad and could take all of your problems away and make you feel better. I learned that the person who saved you, your personal saver, was sent by God to protect you and to help you out.

Historically, the gods of an existing religion become the demons of the conquering religion. That doesn't make one evil and the other good, it just means that one tribe is better at waging war than the other.

The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Sounds descriptive of some TV evangelists from the "name it and claim it" crowd. They certainly are "rich and increased with goods . . .")

How tragic and foolish! Yet, people worship these things and say, "That's God.

push relentlessly for a one-world government - freely acknowledge that religious fanatics represent the greatest hindrance to their move toward absolute control of the planet.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. 'That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you'd die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?' To my objections, his only response was a condescending smile. A religion is finished when only its adversaries try to preserve its integrity.

Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.

I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Only those who come within the church, who take on the name of Christ, can take his name in vain. Now, you do not do it with your lips; you do it with your life.

There is nothing that can tear a person to pieces like religious hypocrisy – teaching one thing and practicing another.