No Religion Quotes
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.
Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.