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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) | Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - (physicist) | |
| Alfred de Musset | Oh God, Thy pity must have been prodound when this miserable world arose from chaos! | |
| Anonymous | Religion is a magic device for turning unanswerable questions into unquestionable answers. | |
| Anonymous | The last time we mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake. | |
| Anonymous | God please save me from your followers. | |
| Benjamin Jowett | My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you. | |
| Billy Graham | The only time my prayers are never answered is playing golf. | |
| Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- (French mathematician, physicist) | |
| Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) | I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. | |
| Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) | I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. | |
| Dalai Lama (Gyatso) (1935 - ) | With the ever-growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play by reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. | |
| Dali | Is it really god who created man or is it man who created god | |
| Dave Barry | People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. - (from "Dave Barry Turns 50") | |
| Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) | The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more indescribing the afflictions of Job than the felicties of Solomon. | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions. | |
| Gene Roddenberry | 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. | |
| George Carlin | I have the same authority as the Pope. I just don't have the same number of people who believe me. | |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | God does not sympathize with the popular movements. | |
| Herb Caen | The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. | |
| J.D. Borgman (1950 - ) | “All religions are the same. It’s just that some are practiced in church, some at the polls, and some in crop circles.†| |
| Jack G. Montgomery (1953 - ) | To go to a church expecting to find the Divine is like going to a prostitute to find true affection and love. At best, you'll get an aproximation of what you were seeking, you'll end up having to pay for it in time and money and will be ridiculed if you're not completely satisfied with the result. | |
| Jay Leno (1950 - ) | How many in the audience are Christians observing Easter? {applause} How many are Jews observing Passover? {applause} How many are Heathens observing Spring Break? {wild sustained applause} | |
| Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007) | I think, as a nation, we've got to be more closed minded. | |
| Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007) | The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. - (Evangelist) | |
| Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007) | I think the Moslem faith teaches hate. - (Televangelist) | |
| Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) | I never saw, heard, or read that the clery were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution. | |
| Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) | We have just enought religion to hate, but not enought to love one another. | |
| Katharine Whitehorn (1926 - ) | Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? | |
| Kevin Phillips | Holy war inflames religion into arrogance.
- (Author of American Theocracy) | |
| Otis Beck (1979 - ) | The way Satan and his minions conspired for mankind to lose faith was that they created religion. | |
| Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. | |
| Peter Barnes (1931 - ) | I know I am God because when I pray to him I find I am speaking to myself. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) | The religions we call false were once true. | |
| Robert Parham | Historically, fundamentalism referred to those 20th century American Protestants who reacted negatively to science and acted militantly against and reading of the Bible other than a wooden literal reading. Today, fundamentalism is a description applied to militant extremists who demand that others embrace their way or hit the highway.
- (Director, Baptist Center for Ethics, Nashville) | |
| Sir Richard F. Burton | The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. | |
| St. Mathew | They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | Christianity was destroyed by religion. | |
| Steven Weinberg (1933 - ) | With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- (American physicist) | |
| Terrell Hughes | I'd rather be in church with them than in hell with them. - (On hypocrites in church) | |
| Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931) | Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. | |
| Thomas Carlyle | If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify Him. They would ask Him to dinner, and hear what he ha to say, and make fun of it. | |
| Voltaire (1694 - 1778) | It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions. | |
| W. C. Fields | I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible -- for loopholes. | |
| Wernher von Braun | I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe, as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science. | |
| William Blake (1757 - 1827) | As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. - ('Proverbs of Hell') |
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