Religion Quotes - Page 65

I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.