Religion Quotes - Page 18

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Then why did you tell me?

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.