Religion Quotes - Page 26

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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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• Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Men, World

  "Getting Married (Hotchkiss)". Play by George Bernard Shaw, May 12, 1908.

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Hands, Two

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Christian, Long, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 16, 1799.

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• My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religious, Thinking, Giving

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Soul, World, Wounded

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• I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

  Henny Youngman

  Coward, Accounts

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• Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Beautiful, Human Life, Humans

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• The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

  Bertrand Russell

  Purpose, World, Outcomes

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Pity! Religion has so seldom found
  A skilful guide into poetic ground!
  The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray
  And every muse attend her in her way.

  William Cowper

  Spring, Flower, Way

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.14

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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

  Fisher Ames

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

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• If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Party, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.137, Del Rey

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• To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

  Woody Allen

  Loyalty, Atheist, Atheism

  "Fictional character: Sandy Bates". "Stardust Memories", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Writing, Government, Long

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sad, Running, Depressing

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• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  God, Giving, Soul

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• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Laughing, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Treasure

  Epictetus (1964). “The Moral Discourses of Epictetus”

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• I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Greek, Doctrine

  "The Real Thomas Jefferson".

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• I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

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• There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

  George Washington

  Country, Inspiration, Knowledge

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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