No Religion Quotes

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of life.

True wisdom always leads us to please God.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.