Religion Quotes And Sayings
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A collection of religion quotes and sayings. Learn and read about different religions, their spiritual essence, spiritual growth, God, and what various people say about these religious faiths.
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
– Garrison Keillor
“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
– Mother Teresa
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
– Albert Einstein
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, There’s just something about you that pisses me off.”
– Stephen King
“Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man … living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”
– George Carlin
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
– Charles Bukowski
“God has no religion.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
– C.S. Lewis
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
– John Milton
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..”
– C.S. Lewis
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
– Mark Twain
“A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
– William Blake
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
– Dan Brown
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
– Robert Frost
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
– C.S. Lewis
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,” he began, “especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?” “They go to hell,” was my ready and orthodox answer. “And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?” “No, sir.” “What must you do to avoid it?” I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: “I must keep in good health and not die.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too.”
– Douglas Adams
“Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”
– Anonymous
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
– Sinclair Lewis
“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
– Jon Stewart
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
– Alice Walker
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
– Dalai Lama XIV
“Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”
– Rumi
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”
– John Lennon
“Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.”
– George Carlin
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