Quotes About Religion

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!