Religion Quotes

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.