Quotes About Religion

Religion is the pious worship of God.

All gods are one god.

If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"

Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

God is not described in equations.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.