No Religion Quotes

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

God's timing is always on time.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Every religion there's something foul going on.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.