Religion Quotes - Page 31

• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Essence, Ideas, Given

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• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.

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• The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Saint, Mercy

  Charles Churchill (1779). “The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author”, p.105

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• His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

  John Keats

  Wish, Anxious

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• There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Faith, Believe, People

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 14, 1954.

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• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Pregnancy, Science

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Atheism, Inuit

  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)

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• The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

  Edmund Burke

  Perfection, World, Body

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.232

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• Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Science, Errors, Catholic

  Letter to the Rev. George V. Coyne on June 01, 1988. "John Paul II on science and religion: reflections on the new view from Rome". Book edited by George Coyne, 1990.

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• Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Children, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1877). “Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems”

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• What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Humility

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

  Duke of Wellington

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

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• Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Taken, Intellectual

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

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• There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  People, Good Man, Holy

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• The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Attitude, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

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• Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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• The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Mind, Atheism

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• Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Law, Atheism

  The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Bending Down, Differences

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• All religions have been made by men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

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• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

  George Burns

  Funny, Life, Humor

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