Religion Quotes And Sayings

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“A baby is God‘s opinion that the world should go on.”
– Carl Sandburg

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
– Christopher Hitchens

“Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God.”
– T.D. Jakes

“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. … These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
– George Carlin

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
– Emmett F. Fields

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
– Richard Dawkins

“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it’s because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they’re responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I’d want nothing to do with them.”
– Philip Pullman

“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.” (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767
– Voltaire

“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
– Jon Stewart

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
– Harper Lee

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are bastards.’”
– Terry Pratchett

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“I believe in good and evil,” said Jem. “And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don’t believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” Tessa looked at will. “What about you? What do you believe? “Pulvis et umbra sumus,” said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. “I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?”
– Cassandra Clare

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
– Albert Camus

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”
– Douglas Adams

“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion… perhaps around their necks? And maybe — dare I dream it? — maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
– Jon Stewart

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
– Albert Camus

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
– Woody Allen

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