Religion Quotes
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Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
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For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
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Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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I’m not religious but I’m definitely very spiritual person. I’ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.
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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
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It's not a religion, there's a real living God that wants to know you today and it's through Jesus Christ his son you can.
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The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!
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Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
