No Religion Quotes

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

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

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

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

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

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

Instant Karma is going to get you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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'.

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.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

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

'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.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

All religion is slavery.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all