Religion Quotes - Page 32

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

They have hijacked my religion.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

To all things clergic I am allergic.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.