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.

Terry Pratchett

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?. Terry Pratchett
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

William Blake

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

Jon Stewart

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Soren Kierkegaard

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with
We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.. Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin, love the sinner.

T.D. Jakes

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!.
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

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.

Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Mark Twain

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Jon Stewart

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

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.

John Green

Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in
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.

Douglas Adams

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction
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.

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.

Jeanette Winterson

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

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?

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.

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Kirk Cameron

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A.W. Tozer

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.. Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lord Mahavira

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious
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.

Rumi

Woman is the light of God.. Rumi
Woman is the light of God.

Jeannette Walls

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

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.

Jess C. Scott

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.

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.

Bernard Branson

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.. Bernard Branson
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

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!

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.

Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet
Food
Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

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.

Jerril Thomas Abraham

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

Deepak Rana

The world has seen more believers in times of troubles than in peace and joy.

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.

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.

Anthony Liccione

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.. Anthony Liccione
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

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.

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

Thomas Carlyle

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Gaudapada

The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

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.

James Gavin

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

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.

Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God's son.

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.

David Mitchell

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.. David Mitchell
The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

Habeeb Akande

The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.

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.

Christopher Marshall

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

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.

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.

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.

John Bunyan

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Eben Alexander

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

David Mitchell

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love..
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

Woody Allen

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Woody Allen

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

George Bernard Shaw

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.. George Bernard Shaw
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Carlin

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

Richard Pryor

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

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.

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?

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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

George Deacon

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

Carl Sagan

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to
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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Albert Camus

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.. Albert Camus
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For
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.

Rick Warren

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed
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)]

Charlotte Brontë

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

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?

Stuart Chase

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Carl Sagan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

Gautama Buddha

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.

John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of
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.

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.

Unknown Author

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

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.

Mark Twain

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Martin Luther

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

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