Religion Quotes

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

~ Kevin Hearne

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

~ Justus Von Liebig

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.

~ Alasdair Gray

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

~ Heather O'neill

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

When I ask you who you are, you'd better say my fucking name.

~ Alicen Grey

Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of choice an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

~ Elie Wiesel

Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.

~ Ray Bradbury

I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to understand that the way is not less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned, and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above our comprehension, I did not presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason; and I thought that in order competently to undertake their examination, there was need of some special help from heaven, and of being more than man.

~ René Descartes

Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. This allegory of a physical mountain for the spiritual one that stands between each soul and its goal is an easy and natural one to make. Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination. Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes. Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others that there's no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as there are individual souls.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.

~ Geoffrey Wood

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

~ Voltaire

In such societies it is common for ordinary people to seek out celibate spiritual leaders for marriage, love and sometimes sexual guidance. This strikes me as a particularly stupid kind of folly. Nobody ever asks a vegetarian for a recommendation for a steak house

~ Scott Andrews

In the meanwhile, just see how profitable the fruits of non-violence are in this life. You stay pure while someone else, someone like me and my Rajput clan, does the sinning and the killing. While you religiously refrain yourself from bloodying your hands, you lend vast sums of money to finance the mightiest armies at minuscule decimal point percentages which add up to monstrous sums of interest.

~ Kiran Nagarkar

That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.

~ Stephen Colbert

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.

~ Stephen Colbert

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

~ Mark Twain

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

~ Maya Banks

How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain.

~ Stephen Fry

Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.

~ Stephanie Oakes

Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' clearly have no grasp of irony.

~ Christina Engela

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

~ Eben Alexander

The universe is perfect. All fault lies within the self.

~ Whitney Hale

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

~ William Faulkner

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

~ Mary Karr

They have not forgotten the Mysteries,” she said, “they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.” Lancelet smiled bitterly. “Perhaps a religion which demands that every man must work through lifetime after lifetime for his own salvation is too much for mankind. They want not to wait for God’s justice, but to see it now. And that is the lure which this new breed of priests has promised them.

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness that you may one day come to suspect the truth of that moment at all. The calling that seemed so clear will be lost in echoes of questionings and indecision; the church that seemed to save you will fester with egos, complacencies, banalities; the deepest love of your life will work itself like a thorn in your heart until all you can think of is plucking it out. Wisdom is accepting the truth of this. Courage is persisting with life in spite of it. And faith is finding yourself, in the deepest part of your soul, in the very heart of who you are, moved to praise it.

~ Christian Wiman

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.

~ Christian Wiman

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

~ C.s. Lewis

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Never forget the tribulations that we have endured. We are all one energy, and we are all part of God. You are one family now. Do not allow yourselves to find reasons to separate yourselves. Share everything; help each other in raising your children. Love each other, and love life.

~ Aaron B. Powell

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

~ Steve Maraboli