Religion Quotes - Page 15

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

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

I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

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

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .