Quotes About Religion

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

These days, especially when cartoons deal with such matters as sex, sexism, sexual orientation, race, racism, religion, and religious fundamentalism, they can evoke primal responses. When that happens, while the viewer may denounce the cartoon, the irony here, as was the case with David Levine, is that it is precisely because the caricature has artistic depth and merit that the outrage is so keenly felt. The more powerful the caricature, the more outraged the protest.

It is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

Mathematics is human reason itself in a form everyone can recognise. Why should poetry, reason and religion not be higher forms of Mathematics? All that is needed is a grammar of their common language.

Not an unbeliever, sir, a free-thinker. Perhaps you've never thought about the difference. As a free-thinker I can believe what I like, when I like. I can commit you, in your sad situation, to the protection of God this evening, even though tomorrow morning I shan't believe he exists. As an unbeliever I should be obliged not to believe, and that's an unwarrantable restriction on my thoughts.

Peace at least. All that was dross and residue vanishes from my soul as if it had never been. I'm alone and calm. It's like the moment when I could theoretically convert to a religion. But although I'm no longer attracted to anything down here, I'm also not attracted to anything up above. I feel free, as if I'd ceased to exist and were conscious of that fact.