Conditions Quote by C. S. Lewis

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

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath…

— Owen Feltham

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

— Thomas Paine

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

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better…

— Laurence Sterne

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he…

— Joseph Addison

“When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being…

— Abhijit Naskar

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion…

— Karen Armstrong

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

— Dewey Henize

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on…

— Vincent de Paul

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

— Sophocles

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and…

— John Owen