No Religion Quotes

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

I'm a born - again atheist.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.