Best Religious Qoutes
4086 Religious quotes by 2085 unique authors
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
— Isaac Watts
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
— Albert Einstein
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
— Albert Einstein
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The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
— Albert Einstein
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I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The…
— Albert Einstein
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
— Albert Einstein
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.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There…
— Albert Einstein
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the…
— Albert Einstein
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs…
— Albert Einstein
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As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
— Albert Einstein
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While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility…
— Albert Einstein
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For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
— Albert Einstein
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
— Thomas Jefferson
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