Concern Quote by Joseph Addison

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive…

— Walter Scott

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

— John Keats

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have…

— Lydia M. Child

“Savages measure religion by the harvest of converts, the civilized find holiness in helping beyond religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke…

— Christopher Hitchens

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for…

— Joseph Addison

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they…

— Aristotle

What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world…

— Marquis de Sade

Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his…

— William Cowper

“This is because in the legalistic church, God (or pronounced “Gawd” if you’re in the southern regions of the country) is coming to smite…

— Shannon Thomas