Religion Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Kindness, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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• I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Sympathy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

  John Polkinghorne

  Religious, Knowledge, Science

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Stressed

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

  Emile Chartier

  Men, Form, Humans

  "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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• The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Religious, Jesus, World

  "The British Millennial Harbinger". Book by John Wallis, 1856.

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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Atheism

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• At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Atheism, World, Credible

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2276, e-artnow

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• It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Hands, Heaven, Church

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• The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Religious, Law, Philanthropy

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.4

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• It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Departure, Corruption, Instance

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• Religion implies revelation.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Revelations

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• Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

  Sophy Burnham

  Miracle, Way, Coincidence

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.48, Penguin

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Horse, Fall

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• One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Three, May

  "Resurrection: What is Religion?".

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• Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

  Upton Sinclair

  Church, Records, Pages

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Forgiveness, God

  In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Doubt

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  The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press

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• The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Fall, Mean

  "Scientists & Their Gods". U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 111, 1991.

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Healing, Issues

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• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Faith, Religious

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