No Religion Quotes
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.
I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.
The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.
The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth.
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.