(1620 quotes found)
“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
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Steven Weinberg
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein
“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.”
Timothy Jones
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln
“When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes”
C.S. Lewis
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.”
Lynn Lavner
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift
Bookmark
