No Religion Quotes

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Islam is an evil and wicked religion.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.