Religion Quotes - Page 43

God's timing is always on time.

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.