Religion Quotes - Page 77

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.

Church on time, makes me party.

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?