Religion Quotes - Page 72

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.