Religion Quotes

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

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

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.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.