Religion god Quotes · Page 3

“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my…

— Norman MacCaig

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

— Thomas Paine

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

— Douglas Adams

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have…

— Thomas Jefferson

“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in…

— Anonymous

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…

— Benjamin Franklin

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,…

— John Adams

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

— John Adams

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

— Blaise Pascal

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

— Thomas Jefferson

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

— Albert Einstein

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing…

— Benjamin Franklin

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

— Thomas Jefferson

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge,…

— Albert Einstein

Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender…

— Rosalie Maggio

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;…

— Mark Twain

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is…

— Thomas Paine

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

— Epicurus

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion.…

— John Updike