Religion Quotes - Page 107

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

Lord, we don't need another mountain.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

All men have need of the gods.