Religion Quotes - Page 28

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

The universe does not care what we want.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.