Quotes About Religion

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?