Religion Quotes

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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

- John Locke

What religious conversion is not: if it serves us a bit too well, if it reinforces all our prejudices and allows us to call ourselves holy at the expense of others whom we can now judge to be unholy, it is probably not the real thing.

- Kathleen Norris

That religion should persist is natural: that the gods should grow, change, and die is necessary from this point of view.

- A. Eustace Haydon

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.

- Helen Keller

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

- A. Philip Randolph

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

- Robert C. Solomon

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, "Have faith and take your troubles to God." Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

- Martin Buber

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...

- Robert Heinlein

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

- Howard Dean

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

- Beatrix Potter

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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 minds harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

- Albert Einstein

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

- Karen Armstrong

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

The United States should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

- George Washington

Prayer is the unification of the group mind around a single purpose.

- A. Eustace Haydon

Those who belong to the orthodox faiths claim that the authority of their faith rests on revelation, and that revelation is given in the pages of books and accounts of miracles and wonders whose nature is supernatural. But those of us who have long discarded the belief in the supernatural still are in the presence of revelations which are the foundation of faith. We too have our revealed religion. We have looked upon the face of men and women that can be to us the symbols of that which is holy. We have heard words of sacred wisdom and truth spoken in the human voice. Out of the universe there have come to us these experience which, when accepted, give to us revelations, not of supernatural religion, but of a natural and inevitable faith in the spiritual powers that animate and dwell in the center of [a person's] being.

- John Lovejoy Elliott

If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.

- Alan Watts

When I have a terrible need of -- shall I say the word -- religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

- Vincent van Gogh

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -- this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

- Albert Einstein

We can't say that all religions are the same, different religions have different views and fundamental differences. But it does not matter, as all religions are meant to help in bringing about a better world with better and happier human beings. On this level, I think that through different philosophical explanations and approaches, all religions have the same goal and the same potential.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

- Karen Armstrong