Religion Quotes

Religion Quotes

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” 

“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.” 

“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.” 

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” 

“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.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” 

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” 

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”

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

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” 

“God has no religion.” 

“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.” 

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.” 

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” 

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.” 

“We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.”

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” 

“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.” 

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!”

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. 
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...” 

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”