Religion Quotes - Page 3

• The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  God, Spiritual, Block

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press

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• Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dream, Atheist, Children

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
  If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
  If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
  If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

  Epicurus

  Evil, Atheism, Wicked

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• The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Two, Catholic

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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

  Bible, Religious, Hygiene

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Atheist

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• Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

  E. O. Wilson

  Biblical, Important, Evolution

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

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• Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Emotion, Dogma

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• It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tests, Childlike Faith, Jokes

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  School, Forever, Political

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

  Sojourner Truth

  Godly, African American, Humanity

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• The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Miracle, Credit, Priests

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2603, Library of Alexandria

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• The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Character, 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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• But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sympathy, Spiritual

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.338, Penguin

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• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Atheist, Prayer

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• Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheism, Reform, Slavery

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1182, Library of Alexandria

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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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• The religions we call false were once true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  True Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2728, Delphi Classics

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• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

  Stendhal

  Atheist, Fear, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, God

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

  Julius Caesar

  Positive Thinking, Men, Worry

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