Religion Quotes - Page 16

• It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Facts, Well Said

  1841 On Heroes, Hero- Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Divinity' (published 1897).

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• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Stupid People, Organization

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• The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Ejaculation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.463, Library of America

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• Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Bills, Bill O Reilly, One Sentence

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• The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Rooms, Dining

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• A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Wicked, Doe

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• Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic

  Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale "The Protoplasmic Theory of Life" (p. 279), 1874.

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Literature, Littles, Too Much

  "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

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• Man has never been the same since God died.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Religious, Men

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• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Wise, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Anchors, Safety, Evil

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• He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Doe

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• When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Political, Atheism

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.

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• The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humility, Science, Arrogance

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• I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

  Patrick Henry

  Christian, Giving, Wish

  The Manchester Iris, a Weekly Literary and Scientific Miscellany, vol. II, p. 387, November 29, 1823.

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• Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Dog, Cat

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

  Luther Burbank

  Book, Judgment, Reason

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dream, Religious, Reflection

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• Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  School, Syllabus, Consciousness

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.81, Sahitya Akademi

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• To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Real, Dark

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" by Albert Einstein, www.einsteinandreligion.com. 1941.

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• In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophy, Mind, Meaning Of Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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• Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mass, Metaphysics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  John Lennon

  Faith, Jesus, Rock And Roll

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

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• If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

  George Frederick Pentecost

  Soul, Evangelism, Prepared

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• What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Christianity, Conviction, Solace

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