No Religion Quotes

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

We got to pray just to make it today.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.