Religion Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Atheist, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• [M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

  Charles Kimball

  War, Names, People

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• Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Motivational, God, Atheist

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• Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  World, Phases, Passing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Religious, Writing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.201, Ballantine Books

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• Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

  R. K. Milholland

  Faithful

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• I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Religious, Prayer

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• Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Reality, Atheism

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• What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mistake, Needs, Delusion

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 18, 2013

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• INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  World, Evidence, Hearsay

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• Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

  Albert Ellis

  Religious, Psychosis, Personality

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• If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, May, Causes

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.183, Psychology Press

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• When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Support, Atheism, Church

  Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects written between the years 1753 and 1790, illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations”, p.69

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• There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Literature, Spirit

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 34

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• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  Carl Sandburg

  Religious, Men, Mouths

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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• Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, Inheritance, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.180

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• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Authority

  'Essays' (1841) 'The Over-Soul'

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

  George MacDonald

  Judging, Ladders, Staring

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7411, Delphi Classics

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• Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Character, Angel

  Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.319, University of Georgia Press

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• Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Religious, People, Atheism

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.438

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• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

  Billy Sunday

  Funny, Hilarious, Christian

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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