Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

A Pirate Looks at Fifty

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?" "You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.

Prophecy Girl

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Pensées

Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake.

Quote Me Everyday

Some people think nature is their God. I'd like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

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

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.

Polly Toynbee

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