Religion Quotes - Page 91

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

In the spirit of tolerance, you should allow us to execute homosexuals.

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.