Quotes
Quotes about Religion
My pollertics, like my religion, being of an exceedin' accommodatin' character.
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain;
Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith,--that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism. When the "cross" became the "foolishness" of the cross, it took possession of the masses.
Religion deals in faith, not proof.
Religion and sex spoke equally of life; they met in the agricultural myths out of which the most sophisticated faiths had been generated.
Poverty is its own religion
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they life about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
God has no religion.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
