No Religion Quotes

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.