RELIGION QUOTES

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But Marge, what if we picked the wrong religion? Each week we'd just make God madder and madder.

HOMER SIMPSON

The Simpsons

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Religion is simply a generic name for the search for happiness.

JAMES GASTON

"Is religion good or bad for society? Two experts debate", Catholic News Agency, February 6, 2016


Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

KARL MARX

Criticism of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"

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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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

JONATHAN SWIFT

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies

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We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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All religions are branches of one big tree.

GEORGE HARRISON

introduction, Krsna

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Never be angry with your neighbor because his religious views differ from your own; for all the branches of a tree to not lean the same way.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

HOSEA BALLOU

Treasury of Thought

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Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

EDMUND BURKE

letter to Wm. Smith, January 29, 1795

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

STEPHEN KING

The Stand

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Religion is the clearest telescope through which we can behold the beauties of creation, and the good of our Creator.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well.

FRANK SINATRA

Playboy Magazine, February 1962

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Science and Religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

DAN BROWN

Angels & Demons

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Behold what is in the heavens and the earth! But revelations and warnings avail not folk who will not believe.

KORAN

Surah Yunus: 101


One religion is as true as another.

ROBERT BURTON

Anatomy of Melancholy

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When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

LISA RANDALL

Discover Magazine, July 2006

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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

EMILE ZOLA

attributed, 2000 Years of Disbelief

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No matter how fallacious a religion may be, its destruction never satisfies unless replaced by another.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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