1- If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. -Robert Green Ingersoll
2- I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. -Aaron Neville
3- I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass
4- I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -Henry Ward Beecher
5- I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -Khalil Gibran
6- I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mohandas Gandhi
7- I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. -Arthur C. Clarke
8- 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
9- Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. -Blaise Pascal
10- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. -Henry David Thoreau
11- 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
12- God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -Paul Valery
13- Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" -Annie Dillard
14- Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. -Isaac Bashevis Singer
15- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -Isaac Asimov
16- Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. -Dennis Miller
17- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C. S. Lewis
18- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. -Joseph Ratzinger
19- Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. -Osho
20- If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. ~Theodore Dreiser
21- Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
22- God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? ~Martin Buber
23- I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
24- This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama
25- Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
26- It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~Karl Menninger
27- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger
28- Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax
29- No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. ~William Ernest Hocking
30- A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis
31- All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman
32- All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. ~Frederick the Great
33- People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
34- Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. ~Martin H. Fischer
35- There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
36- All men have need of the gods. ~Homer
37- Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
38- Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion Quotes
39- It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~Karl Menninger
40- A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis
41- Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. -John Updike
42- There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
-Mignon McLaughlin43- India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. - Mark Twain
44- Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. -Howard Chandler Christy
45- You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? -Freeman Dyson
46- Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. -Mignon McLaughlin
47- Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. -Malcolm Muggeridge
48- God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. -Mark Twain
49- Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. -Anonymous
50- You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. -Anonymous