Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Wislawa Szymborska

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

Alain de Botton

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Al Goldstein

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Blaise Pascal

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

C. S. Lewis

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Deepak Chopra

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Dick Francis

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Francis of Assisi

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Frances Wright

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Joyce Carol Oates

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Louis Aragon

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Lee Strobel

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Mary Astell

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mahatma Gandhi

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Reza Aslan