Religion Quotes - Page 7

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.