Religion Quotes - Page 16

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.

Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.