Quotes About Religion

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

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

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.