Religious Quotes - Page 21

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Integrity

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Atheist, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Atheist, Beer

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  God, Islamic, Reality

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• In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Encouraging, God, Hymns

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”

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• When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Atheist, Talking, Religion

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• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Men, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

  James Madison

  Ignorance, Liberty, Unions

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

  John Adams

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Faith Religion

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

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• Prayer can never be in excess.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Excess

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• We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Self Esteem

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• The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

  Thomas Chalmers

  Beauty, Christian, Jesus

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Ignorance, Science

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

  Annie Besant

  Atheist, Philosophy, Religion

  "Why God". Book by William J. Pardue, May 10, 2012.

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• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Death, Atheist, Fear

  "The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night". Book by John Payne, Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13., 1885.

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, People, Atheism

  "There is No God (And You Know It)" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2005.

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• Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Death, God

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows, 7, 1888.

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• If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Presidential, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.140

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Atheist, Ideas

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• Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Ignorance, Should Have

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• Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Joy, Devil

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• Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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