Religion Quotes
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, Religion .
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit ... we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake.. Religion is all bunk.
Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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