Quotes About Religion

Even the most educated of us are prejudiced. One simple test of prejudice is this—will you allow your siblings or children to marry outside your community or religion? If your answer is no, then no matter how much you cheer for the Indian team, stand at attention for the national anthem or cheer the Indian flag, you are prejudiced.

Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.

Tetragram is a four-letter word.

For index now as he stretched forth Derwent, arrested, cried, "Dost bleed?" Touching the naked skin: "Look here— A living fresco!" And indeed, Upon the fore-arm did appear A thing of art, vermil and blue, A crucifixion in tattoo, With trickling blood-drops strange to see...

Skin does not equal sin.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war and pillage...

Es fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it, plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so, plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies they sure must turn atheists in the Winter time.

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The theory that, since the sky rockets following a wallop in the eye are optical delusions, the wallop itself is a delusion and the eye another.

TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

The Christian always mixes prudence with his devotion. He is willing to serve three gods, but draws the line at one wife.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.