No Religion Quotes

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come

We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.