No Religion Quotes

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...

Prophesying is lying professionally.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.