Every great
advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
— Thomas
Henry Huxley
The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
— Albert
Einstein
Heresies are
experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
— H. G.
Wells
The whole
religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem
of a lunatic asylum.
— Havelock
Ellis
Religion is the
opiate of the masses.
— Karl
Marx
[The yarmulke] is an indication that one
recognizes that there is something above you.
It says, “Above my intellect is a sign of godliness.”
— Rabbi
Pinchas Stopler
I could prove
God statistically.
— George
Gallup
The task of
organized religion is not to prove that God was the in the first century, but
that he is in the twentieth.
— S. H.
Miller
To be religious
is to have a life that flows with the presence of the extraordinary.
— Ann
Belford Ulanov
Someday, after
mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for
God the energies for love, and then, for a second time in the history of the
world, man will have discovered fire.
— Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
I think it
pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t
notice it.
— Alice
Walker
God, give us
grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to
change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one
from the other.
— Reinhold
Niebuhr (later adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous)
The value of
persistent prayer is not that he will hear us...but that we will finally hear
him.
— William
McGill
Until you know
that life is interesting— and find it so — you haven’t found your soul.
— Archbishop
Geoffrey Fisher
God, it seems,
is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
— R.
Buckminster Fuller
My religion
consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals
himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble
minds.
— Albert
Einstein
Health is the
state about which medicine has nothing to say; sanctity is the state about
which theology has nothing to say.
— W. H.
Auden
It is as
impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even
Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
— Frederick
Buechner
You can’t
divorce religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for
it.
— Charles
Caleb Colton
Be good, keep
your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of
Christ.
— Thomas
Merton
Superstition is
the religion of feeble minds.
— Edmund
Burke
I find that the
nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to
like the best men of all religions.
— Samuel
Butler
I am one of
those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don’t
believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
— Martin
Sheen
Mothers and dads
that take their children to church never get into trouble.
— J. Edgar
Hoover
A pretty good
test of a man’s religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
— Francis
James Grimke
Every age thinks
it is perfect, especially in religion.
— William
Pickens
Don’t pray when
it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
— Leroy
(Satchel) Paige
While there is
almost no religion operating in race relations, there is plenty of God.
— Jay
Saunders Redding
The government
of the United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian religion. The
United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or
Mohammedan nation.
— Treaty
with Tripoli
If God’s got
anything better than sex to offer, he’s certainly keeping it to himself.
— Sting
The great god
Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
—Keith
Preston
Who says I am
not under the special protection of God?
— Adolf
Hitler
He was of the
faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was
Catholic.
— Kingsley
Amis
Heresy is only
another word for freedom of thought.
— Graham
Greene
I’m a Catholic
and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
— Jack
Kerouac
There is only
one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
— George
Bernard Shaw
Religions die
when they are proved to be true. Science
is the record of dead religions.
— Oscar
Wilde
Christ died for
our sins. Are we to make his martyrdom
meaningless by not committing them?
— Jules
Feiffer
How beautiful
upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace.
— Isaiah
52:7
The desert shall
rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
— Isaiah
35:1
What hath God
wrought!
— Numbers
23:23
Prayer gives a
man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
— Dean
William R. Inge
No one can say
that Christianity has failed. It has
never been tried.
— Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr.
Giving away a
fortune is taking Christianity too far.
— Charlotte
Bingham
God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
— John
3:16
Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they do.
— Luke
23:34
The trouble with
born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time
around.
— Herb
Caen
Christianity is
one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.
— D. T.
Niles
Two great
European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
— Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche
The most
stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church toward
woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of
person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the
exercise of her own judgment; her own conscience, her own will.
— Matilda
Gage
Being an
Episcopalian interferes neither with my business nor my religion.
— John
Kendrick Bangs
Greater love
hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
— Lyndon
B. Johnson
A Sunday school
is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their
parents.
— H. L.
Mencken
