Importance Quote by Frank Herbert

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once…

— Christopher Hitchens

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

— C. S. Lewis

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

— Anonymous

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

— Isaac Newton

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

— Ambrose Bierce

Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next…

— Robert H. Schuller

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

— Aldous Huxley

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

— Barbara Marciniak

“A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves…

— Carl Sagan

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe