Religion Quotes
Garrison Keillor
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
4047 Terry Pratchett
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
1898 William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
3471 Jon Stewart
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
3402 Lailah Gifty Akita
We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.
3086 T.D. Jakes
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
4274 James Joyce
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
1734 Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
3794 Mark Twain
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
4495 Jon Stewart
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
3472 Jon Stewart
Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe - dare I dream it? - maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.
4152 John Green
Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes.
4732 Douglas Adams
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
2779 Woody Allen
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
4337 Jeanette Winterson
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
1384 Bill Watterson
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
4624 Unknown Author
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
3122 Ming-Dao Deng
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
2888 Kirk Cameron
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
3798 Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
1817 A.W. Tozer
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
1509 Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
1998 Sam Harris
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
1354 Charles Slagle
The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
1887 Harry Blamires
...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.
4273 Merritt Y. Hughes
God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.
1927 Lord Mahavira
A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
3720 Rumi
Woman is the light of God.
4663 Jeannette Walls
If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
1472 Said Nursî
Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
3938 Jess C. Scott
If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
3669 Heather O'Neill
Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.
4545 Robert G. Ingersoll
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
3829 Paulo Coelho
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.
2165 Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet
Food
Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
1138 Thiruman Archunan
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.
1079 Deepak Rana
The world has seen more believers in times of troubles than in peace and joy.
1545 Aldous Huxley
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
2390 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.
1539 Anthony Liccione
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
1023 Mary E. DeMuth
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
2540 Bill Hicks
You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it
2595 Thomas Carlyle
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
4484 Gaudapada
The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.
4734 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
2618 Zbigniew Herbert
I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.
3443 James Gavin
Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.
3194 Neal Stephenson
Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.
3261 Vironika Tugaleva
The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
3298 Habeeb Akande
The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.
2396 Gerard Manley Hopkins
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.
2392 Jordan Beem
Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.
2214 Annie Dillard
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
2003 Mustafa SULTAN
It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless.
1842 John Bunyan
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
4866 Eben Alexander
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
1945 David Mitchell
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
3113 Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
3951 Woody Allen
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
2239 George Carlin
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
4281 Richard Pryor
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
1311 Scott Dikkers
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
1999 Lewis Black
Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?
1116 Stephen Colbert
Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.
4164 Fulton J. Sheen
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
4170 George Deacon
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
1329 Carl Sagan
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?
4333 Jim Butcher
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.
1097 Jim Butcher
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
4311 Dave Barry
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
4183 Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
3539 Albert Camus
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
4314 Gordon B. Hinckley
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
3729 Albert Camus
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
3710 Rick Warren
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
1310 Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
[Moral Decay (first published 1937)]
2053 Charlotte Brontë
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
3227 Jimmy Carter
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
2701 Neil Gaiman
I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?
3898 Stuart Chase
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
2077 Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
1779 Marcel Duchamp
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
2282 D.H. Lawrence
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
3024 Bernard Cornwell
Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.
3385 Mary Daly
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
1392 Gautama Buddha
The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.
4400 John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
4701 Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
3053 Abraham Lincoln
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
2252 Unknown Author
Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
3445 C.S. Lewis
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
2581 Mark Twain
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
3514 Martin Luther
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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