Religion Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

  Daniel Dennett

  Buddhism, Thinking, Islam

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Funny, God, Jesus

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• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  Margaret Mead

  Fear, Fog, Punishment

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• The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Book, Men

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

  Bill Maher

  Atheist, Ignorance, Men

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• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Fear, Reality

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

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• Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Incidents, Should, Casual

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.71

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• Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Hypocrisy, Passing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1946). “Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani”

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• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Religion is civilization, the highest.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Civilization, Highest

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• Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, Matter, Opinion

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• All true religion must stand on true morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morality, True Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Laughing, Joyful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Religion is using everything for God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.114

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• Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Denial, Self-denial

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Religion is the pious worship of God.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Worship, Pious

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• To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Excess, Littles

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• Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

  Martin Luther

  Blessed, Men, Way

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• I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Prayer, Believe

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• Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

  William Penn

  Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

  John Selden

  Fashion, Men, Trimming

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• True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

  Edmund Burke

  Foundation, Fabric, Lasting

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