Browsing Topic Best Religion Quotes

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Men talk of heaven, – there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, – there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, –
O love, there is no other life – but here.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It’s what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

The past is another planet.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.

God is in the details.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.

O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.