Religion Quotes - Page 81

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.