No Religion Quotes

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

Science leads you to killing people.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

The religion of humanity is love.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Christianity is a religion for losers.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Science is the true theology.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.