When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my
religion.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to
perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a
Symposium", 1941
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his
mouth.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their
father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart,
not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem
to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist
but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and
not to be constrained by force.
Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD), Life
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in
terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front
saying this is fiction.
Ian McKellen, Interview on the Today Show, May 2006
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and
manner of devotion.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or
are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but
morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883
edition, last words
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their
peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is
known about the way the world works.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,
1990
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when
they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never
worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to
is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our
information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we
feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each
person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot
come true unless man cooperates.
Stella Terrill Mann
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good
things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20,
1999
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its
evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been
honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot
be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the
bedside of a dying child.
Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
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