Good Religion quotes: Best famous quotes about Religion
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. – Helen Keller
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window. – Stephen King
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
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – C. S. Lewis
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. – C. S. Lewis
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. – Bill Maher
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious. – Bill Maher
We must respect the other fellow’s religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. – H. L. Mencken
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
Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. – Dennis Miller
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. – Blaise Pascal
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. – Stephen Roberts
The Bible is literature, not dogma. – George Santayana
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. – Frank Sinatra
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said “No.” – Margaret Smith
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. – Paul Tournier
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valery
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. – Marianne Williamson
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