Religion Quotes - Page 5

• Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

  Francis of Assisi

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Attributed to Francis of Assisi in Alf Droy "The Lord is my Shepherd" (p. 84), 1999.

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• Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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• Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

  Jules Feiffer

  Jesus, Forgiving, Sin

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Christian, Atheist

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2

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• An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Soul, Body, Ghost

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• The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thankful, Atheist, Worst Moments

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

  Chief Joseph

  Church, Want, Quarrels

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• Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faith, Religious, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.383, Penguin

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• Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Reason, Rudders

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.360

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• In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Stupidity, Rewards, Causes

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• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Fighting, Evil

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  Samuel Johnson

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.469

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• The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

  "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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• What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

  Stephen Hawking

  Religious, Science, Law

  "Physicist Stephen Hawking Says There Is No Heaven". www.foxnews.com. May 16, 2011.

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• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

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• Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Motivational, Atheism, Matter

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• What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Believe, Atheism

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Success, God

  "Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination". Book by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, 1988.

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• After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophical

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• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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