Religion Quotes - Page 34

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

The religions we call false were once true.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.