Religion Quotes

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit ... we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

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.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.

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 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 .

I doubt not that it [the Bible] is really ... the best cure for the Blues could one but take it according to the truth.

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.

All bibles are man-made.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

There is but one evil, ignorance.