Religion Quotes - Page 24

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Do not dare not to dare.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.

You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.