Religion Quotes - Page 63

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Religion is using everything for God.

You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Religion is life essential.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.