No Religion Quotes
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.
The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.
If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.
How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.
Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.
The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
