Quotes About Religion

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him. - Cady

By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every impulse in humanity except the need for an Absolute, which will survive the destruction of temples and even the disappearance of religion on earth. The core of the Russian people being religious, they will inevitably gain the upper hand...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

And think how he has been brought up-, free from all the superstition and ignorance that lead men to hate one another in the name of God.

The term Judeo-Christianity does nothing but muddle two things that need to be distinguished, probably the intent of the word from the beginning.

White is an identity marker for the deracinated people who have no religion.

Once religion and capitalism united to destroy Communism, it was only a matter of time before religion and capitalism would be at war with each other. This is precisely what happened in 2003 when the United States invaded Iraq and formally declared war on Islam.

Once Europe turned away from Christ, it had to turn to the City of Man. That meant that Libido Dominandi became its constitution.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

In Western individualist cultures, the decision to become a Christian is a personal and individual decision.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

If there were no God, we would have to invent one to keep people sane."*

For above all the dread and uncertainty in which ignorant people lived like children in the dark – frightened of witches and wizards, of the Devil and evil spirits – above it all was the bright starlit sky of the new faith, showing them the way.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.

Por muito que me esforce, não consigo desprezar todos esses séculos durante os quais nos dedicámos unicamente a dar uma última demão na definição de Deus.

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.