Deceiving Quote by A.J. Ayer

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

— Stephen Charnock

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

— The Bible

“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake of truth.”

— Anonymous

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

— Sigmund Freud

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and…

— George MacDonald

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose…

— Sigmund Freud

[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining…

— Richard P. Feynman

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly…

— William Winwood Reade