Quotes of: Christian-religion Keyword

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

The Vampire Lestat

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

The Words

One may be "outside" the church, but one can never be "outside" of God's love.

A Wideness in God's Mercy: The Finality Of Jesus Christ In A World Of Religions

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Holiness

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.

How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Richard Dawkins

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Sam Harris

Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked to religion and mythology.

Spencer Reid

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

T. K. Decker

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

John Wooden

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

John Wooden

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

John Wesley

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

Kedar Joshi