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Religion Quotes
"A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society."
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"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
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"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
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"Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker."
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"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy."
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"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."
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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
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"If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe."
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"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand."
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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
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"I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?"
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"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
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"The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, he said."Nothing about religion is simple."
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"A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics."
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"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers."
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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
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"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."
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"What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer."
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"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."
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"Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else."
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"The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them."
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"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
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"The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies."
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"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
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"One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it."
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"Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun."
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"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."
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"Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world."
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"Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?"
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"Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb."
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"But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, "Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!"
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"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
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"In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction."
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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
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"There can be no truce between science and religion."
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"Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings."
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"Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock."
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"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?"
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