Quotes About Religion

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Each man creates god in his own image.

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.

That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.