No Religion Quotes

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.