Religion Quotes

• 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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• Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

  Lenny Bruce

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967)

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• Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Character, Positivity, Sermons

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• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

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• We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Religious, Hate

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

  Dave Barry

  Religious, Views, People

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

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

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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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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Atheist

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• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Our Theatres In The Nineties". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1932.

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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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  A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Museums, Church, Saint

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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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• You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

  Doris Egan

  God, Religious, House

  "House / House vs. God". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• A cult is a religion with no political power.

  Tom Wolfe

  Religious, Philosophy, Power

  In Our Time ch. 2 (1980) See Feibleman 1

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• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Common Sense, Church

  'Thoughts on Religion' (1765)

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• The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

  Mark Twain

  God, Christian, Army

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

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• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Love, Faith, Unity

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