No Religion Quotes

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.

Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

A revival of religion presupposes a declension.

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.