Quotes About Religion

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

All neurotics seek the religious

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.