3 December 2020 Edmond de Goncourt If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
3 December 2020 Minna Antrim The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Edwards There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we’re man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
3 December 2020 Felix Adler No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
3 December 2020 Julian Clary I’ve found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
3 December 2020 Paul Bert Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
3 December 2020 Israel Zangwill Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.
3 December 2020 Harvey Cox All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
3 December 2020 Guy de Maupassant Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
3 December 2020 Peter Jennings I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
3 December 2020 Luke Ford I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
3 December 2020 Michael Behe The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
3 December 2020 Brad Pitt I grew up very religious, and I don’t have a great relationship with religion.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Carpenter I read Christopher McDougall’s book ‘Born to Run.’ If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
3 December 2020 Rachel Weisz People still kill in the name of religion. We haven’t evolved to the point where we’re one tribe called humans.
3 December 2020 Charles de Secondat People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
3 December 2020 Frances Wright Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
