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Religion44 quotes
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx · 1883My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine · 1792What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. — Edmund Burke · 1792Religion is love; in no case is it logic. — Beatrice Potter Webb · 1926Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007All 44 quotes →Science5 quotes
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it. — William Henry Bragg · 1920There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein · 1940The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. — Max Perutz · 1989Science and religion4 quotes
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it. — William Henry Bragg · 1920There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein · 1940Decline of religion2 quotes
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx · 1883Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Diversity of religion2 quotes
Religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1909Freedom of religion2 quotes
No compulsion is there in religion. — Muhammad · 632It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. — Tertullian · 217God2 quotes
I think it was a generous thought, and one that flowed from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world. — Alexander Pope · 1716There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Martyrdom2 quotes
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. — Jorge Luis Borges · 1946Faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world. — Tony Benn · 1989Philosophy2 quotes
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. — David Hume · 1739Absurdity of life1 quote
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber · 1917Alcohol1 quote
There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion. — Lord Byron · 1819Atheism1 quote
It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. — James Joyce · 1915Athens1 quote
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Athens and Jerusalem1 quote
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Citizens of the world1 quote
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine · 1792Cults1 quote
A cult is a religion with no political power. — Tom Wolfe · 1980Dignity1 quote
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. — George Santayana · 1925Faith1 quote
Faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world. — Tony Benn · 1989Fanaticism1 quote
Faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world. — Tony Benn · 1989Freedom1 quote
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835God and man1 quote
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973God of the gaps1 quote
There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Grace1 quote
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. — George Santayana · 1925Hypocrisy1 quote
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. — Mark Twain · 1880Hypocrisy and religion1 quote
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. — Mark Twain · 1880Jerusalem1 quote
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Morality1 quote
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Morality and politics1 quote
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Myth1 quote
A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes. — James K. Feibleman · 1973Nature of God1 quote
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973