No Religion Quotes

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

One People, one Reign, one Leader.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

Religion has always persecuted science.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.