Religion Quotes - Page 5

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?