Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.
The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.
I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)