Religion Quotes
-
Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party.
-
Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.
-
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
-
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.
-
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
-
Religion taught us to return good for evil.
-
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
-
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
-
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.
-
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
-
Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
-
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
-
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
-
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
-
I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.
-
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
-
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
-
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
-
Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.
-
One of the ironies of modern religion is that the absolute commitment to truth in some forms of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity and the concomitant view that truth is objective and can be verified by any impartial observer have led many faithful souls to follow the truth wherever it leads—and where it leads is often away from evangelical or fundamentalist Christianity. So if, in theory, you can verify the “objective” truth of religion, and then it turns out that the religion being examined is verifiably wrong, where does that leave you? If you are an evangelical Christian, it leaves you in the wilderness outside the evangelical camp, but with an unrepentant view of truth. Objective truth, to paraphrase a not so Christian song, has been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God, I know, I’m one. Before moving outside into.
-
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.
-
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
-
You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.
-
There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
