Religion Quotes

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

~ Toba Beta

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 has no religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

~ C.s. Lewis

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

~ C.s. Lewis

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

~ Harper Lee

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

~ John Lennon

God save us from people who mean well.

~ Vikram Seth

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

~ Richard Dawkins

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

~ Alice Walker

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

~ George Carlin

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

~ Epicurus

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

~ Albert Camus

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us, it is the very sign of His presence.

~ C.s. Lewis

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

~ Dan Brown

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

~ Bertrand Russell

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

~ Voltaire

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

~ John Lennon

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

~ Steven Weinberg

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

~ Sam Harris

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

~ Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

~ Albert Einstein

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

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

~ Salman Rushdie

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

~ Haruki Murakami

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

~ Albert Einstein

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty.

~ David Hume

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

~ Henry Miller

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

~ Anne Rice

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

~ Martin Luther

Without God all things are permitted.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

~ Lenny Bruce