Religion Quotes
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No whiskey, no religion, nothing.
Charles Willeford
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Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There was a scant role for ethics in the paganism.
It is not that ancient people were less ethical than people today; it is that ethics had little to do with religion.
If it had a “location” in ancient life, it was in philosophy.
Bart Ehrman
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"Culture" is a new phenomenon, I believe. Culture is the new religion. People treat you based upon your culture. You are pushed to describe yourself by your culture: Kurdish or Turkish? Left wing or right wing? Progressive or conservative? Westerner or Easterner? European or Asian? So we have a label ready for you.
Burhan Sonmez
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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.
Dan Barker
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It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.
G.A. Henty
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
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On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
John Stuart Mill
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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
James Anthony Froude
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Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
Achille Silvestrini
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Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
Dolly Parton
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In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.
Barbara Holland
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Blaise Pascal
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
H. L. Mencken
