Religion Quotes - Page 9

• God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

  Voltaire

  God, Spiritual, Circles

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin

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• There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Pride, Cures, Virtuous

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1957). “Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”, p.186, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Communication, Men

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• Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Science, Infancy Is

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Men, Race

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• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  Abraham Cowley

  Love, Sin, Accounts

  'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' 'The Request'

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• Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

  Augustus Hare

  Men, Circumstances, Creatures

  "Guesses at Truth". Book by Augustus William Hare, 1827.

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• Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Enough, Natural

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

  Thomas Szasz

  Ingredients, Categories, Rhetoric

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

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• I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

  Elizabeth I

  Peace, Years, Names

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Trouble, Obscure

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Chinese, Sacred, Sticks

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Buddhist, Enough

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.203, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Occupation, Housekeeping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Titles, Advantage, Founders

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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• "As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Morality, Praying

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 81, 1880.

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• Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider the 'Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the basis and foundation of government,' it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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

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• Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

  Denis Diderot

  Wall, Views, Doe

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• A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Society, Church, Loyal

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• The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Funny, Humorous, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.261, Library of Alexandria

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• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, Weather, Praying

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

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• If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.

  Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

  Happiness, Trust, Faith

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