Quotes and aphorisms on religion
Quotes and aphorisms on religion Quotes and aphorisms on religion, great words of wisdom and different opinions by various authors on the most important social phenomenon of the world culture. A nation that displays the shitty faces of poor religious idiots on the walls of its cities must by strict logic necessarily be destroyed, never mind the international law of stupidity. Carl William Brown Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon In the past, to subjugate the people, the powerful used force, laws and religion; now, they also have football and television. Carl William Brown The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. Roger Babson It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. Mikhail Bakunin Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce My poor are my best patients. God pays for them. Herman Boerhaave I coined a synonym for syncretism, namely syncretinism. Carl William Brown Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. Phillips Brooks And lips say "God be pitiful," who never said, "God be praised." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. Patrick Buchanan Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. Edmund Burke One gives praise to God not only through prayers of thanksgiving, but also through obedience to His commandments and service to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves. George H. Bush ) I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day... Lord Byron A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. Gilbert K. Chesterton If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true. Emile Auguste Chartier Nowadays, besides being corrupted by stupidity, the Vatican is corrupted by syncretinism. Carl William Brown Religion! What treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! William Cowper Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. Benjamin Disraeli The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen. Benjamin Franklin The Pope is none other than the president of that huge Vatican industry that has made the Catholic religion its great consumer product. Carl William Brown Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. John Galsworthy All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will. Alexander Herzen It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. Edward Hoagland For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. Thomas Hobbes To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. Bob Hope Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance. Elbert Hubbard The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammedanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. Victor Hugo Syncretinism is the most updated keyword of the modern catholic church. Carl William Brown Toleration is the best religion. Victor Hugo To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. Dean William R. Inge There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. William James I have tried to keep things in my hands and lost them all, but what I have given into the Lord's hands I still possess. Martin Luther King Jr. A man with God is always in the majority. John Knox Perdition shall be the lot of man, except for those who have faith and do good works and exhort each other to justice and fortitude. The Koran When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. Karl Kraus To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! Jean De La Bruyere Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. C. S. Lewis I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence. Christopher Marlowe Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Friedrich Nietzsche The church burned my friend Giordano, and we don't forget, we don't forgive. Carl William Brown There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. Suzanne Lafollette My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness. Dalai Lama A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. D. H. Lawrence A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. Thomas B. Macaulay Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C. S. Lewis Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. Joseph De Maistre Even Voltaire said it: "If God didn't exist, we'd have to invent him!" And that's exactly what our ancestors must have thought, too. Carl William Brown
Quotes and aphorisms on religion But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? Harriet Martineau Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Harriet Martineau Religion is the opium of the masses. Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. H. L. Mencken Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. James R. Miller Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it, ought to be treated as a common enemy. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. Gerard De Nerval The Vatican has always been corrupted, first of all by stupidity. Carl William Brown From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. John Henry Newman A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections. Reinhold Niebuhr There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. Sean O'Casey Man is born broken. He lives by mending. And, the grace of God is the glue. Eugene O'Neill All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Ezra Pound A maker of idols is never an idolater. Chinese Proverb It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. Edgar Quinet It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. Salman Rushdie Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis De Sade Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. George Santayana It makes sense that there is no sense without God. Edith Schaeffer Progressive intellectuals spent decades of centuries freeing themselves from the imbecility of the Catholic religion, only to end up supporting the stupidity of Islam and its fanatical puppets. Carl William Brown My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. George Bernard Shaw There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds. Susan Sontag By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. Gloria Steinem If you have two religions in your country, they will cut each other' throat; if you have thirty religions, they will live in peace. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. Allen Tate Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. Lord Alfred Tennyson Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. Tertullian Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. The Holy Bible Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. The Holy Bible Source: Corinthians 4.2 Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. Alexis De Tocqueville I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force. Mark Twain It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient. Mark Twain A good test of a man's religion is its vitality. Author Unknown Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God. Author Unknown Buddhism believes in reincarnation, but this theory is unsuitable for the wise; in fact, it is better for so many imbeciles to remain in the realm of the dead. Carl William Brown Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. Author Unknown Religion is insurance in this world against fire in the next. Author Unknown Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim. Author Unknown For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. Ludwig Wittgenstein Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. John Updike When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. Ludwig Wittgenstein Religion is love: in no case is it logic. Beatrice Potter Webb Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. William Wilberforce Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. Oscar Wilde Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. Brigham Young By night an atheist half believes in God. Edward Young Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. Fred A. Allen The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. James Baldwin Humanity's spiritual, metaphysical, mystical, literary, and sociological beliefs are also very useful in promoting those stupid wars, also more vulgarly called, of religion. Carl William Brown
Aphorisms and quotes about religion A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. Henry Ward Beecher The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. Henry Ward Beecher Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. William Blake Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. Napoleon Bonaparte How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. Olympia Brown If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's. Samuel Butler People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. Samuel Butler I have a great mind to believe in Christianity; for the mere pleasure of fancying, I may be damned. Lord Byron Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing. Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. Albert Camus With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. Louis-Ferdinand Celine The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. Gilbert K. Chesterton He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The question is not ''How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, ''What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?'' Robert A. Cook I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. Patrick Henry If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. Mahatma Gandhi White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. Nikki Giovanni The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. Billy Graham Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. Billy Graham Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself. Richard Halverson It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us. Lynn Harold Hough The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing. Lynn Harold Hough Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. Samuel Johnson God doesn't have any grandchildren.