No Religion Quotes

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

All religions are true but none are literal.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.