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| There’s something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~ John Updike, |
| A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~ Edwin Lewis |
| It is doubtless true that religion has been the world’s psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~ Karl Menninger |
| Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer |
| All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~ Cathy Ladman |
| 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 |
| The church is the great lost and found department. ~ Robert Short |
I speak not of men’s creeds – they rest between
Man and his Maker.
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron, |
| By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~ Thomas Merton |
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| God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? ~ Martin Buber |
| All religions must be tolerated… for… every man must get to heaven his own way. ~ Frederick the Great |
| 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 |
| People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ~ Kurt Vonnegut |
| Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ~ George Savile |
| Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| 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 |
| I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All men have need of the gods. ~ Homer |
| There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure. ~ Harvard Lamphoon |
| Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~ Seneca the Younger |
| No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right. ~ Bertrand Russell, |
| My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I’m willing to give Him the chance. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. ~ Austin O’Malley |
| The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. ~ Sean Ningen |
| Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| Christianity is not being destroyed by the confusions and concussions of the time; it is being discovered. ~ Hugh E. Brown |