Religious Quotes · Page 197

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let…

— Frances Wright

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way…

— Richard Dawkins

“Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a…

— George Mason

Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam…

— Michael Scheuer

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace…

— Abraham Lincoln

A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many…

— Gregory S. Paul

Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity…

— Adolf Hitler

God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he…

— Jacobus Arminius

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible…

— Richard Dawkins

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you…

— Oswald Chambers

There's only what you choose, and how you can have it. If you choose peace and joy and love, you won't get…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…

— Thomas Jefferson

For others the mourning is over. Others would say that whilst one God has died - the God of ontotheology perhaps? -…

— George Pattison

Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to…

— Dalai Lama

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze…

— Frederick Buechner

The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this…

— Therese of Lisieux

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical…

— Eckhart Tolle

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see…

— Philip Jenkins

You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to…

— Pope Francis

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of…

— Abraham Lincoln

I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I…

— Michael Shannon

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are…

— Edwin Gaustad

I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens…

— Ezra Taft Benson

... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.…

— John F. Kennedy

The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity,…

— Arundhati Roy

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A…

— Anonymous

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. There are so many religions because immature…

— Peace Pilgrim

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.…

— Sam Harris

Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that…

— William F. Schulz

Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been…

— Henry Lipson

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even…

— Benjamin Rush

You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they…

— Salman Rushdie