Religion Quotes - Page 78

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

We are religious by nature.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

All neurotics seek the religious

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.