Religious Quotes · Page 93

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

— Francis Collins

Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

— Robert Burns

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

— Don Feder

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

— Harvey Cox

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

— Daniel Dennett

“Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in…

— Steve Maraboli

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

— Joseph Story

Religious faith can help foster a truly global consciousness and restore the bonds between human hearts.

— Senora Roy

Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He…

— David Jeremiah

One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine,…

— Don Feder

The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact,…

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring…

— Karen Armstrong

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding…

— Gerhard Richter

Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of…

— Avigdor Lieberman

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage…

— Benjamin Franklin

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed…

— Katy Perry

However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused…

— George Coyne

There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and…

— Salmon P. Chase

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them…

— Carl Jung

I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As…

— Albert Einstein

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

— Joseph Addison

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

— Keith Miller

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

— Richard Dawkins

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

— Susanne Bier

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

— Ilka Chase

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

— Mouni Roy

Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I am keen on a spiritual life and have struggled to find a place for my heart in a religious community.

— Sandi Toksvig

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

— Elie Wiesel

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

— William Bennett

When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be…

— Richard Dawkins

“When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.”

— Joyce Myer

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

— Rodger Kamenetz