Quotessence
Home / Topics / Religious Quotes

Religious Quotes

Browse 7769 quotes about Religious.

Related topics

ChristianPeopleIfsGodMenThinkingWorldBeliefBelieveWayChurchInspirationalPoliticalAtheismKnowsHumansShouldSpiritualChristianityJesusDoeStatesPersonsWantReligious BeliefMayNeedsGivingOrthodoxKindHas BeensMoralMeanLibertyFirstsFaithChristAtheistHeartReasonAmericaLordCountryMindGovernmentIdeasPositive AtheismPrayerReligious FaithChristian InspirationalSoulSpiritMatterWellsYearsFactsChildrenFeelsValuesSecularCatholicLawMadeDifferentTodayFormSocialWarLooksTryingI BelieveCultureProblemReligious FreedomImportantNationsPracticeBookPrayingViewsWholeFeelingsWorshipHeavenPrinciplesCommunityRealHolySinStillsLeaderSchoolGroupsSeemsLongTraditionReligious ExperienceCertainSelfArtmore

Religious Quotes

“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.”

PeopleWantDoeSoulEarthOrderReligiousTeachFateIgnoranceMastersBecomingMassCapableConcernedHungerSatisfiedCivilizedCaptainsFilth
Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
Create image

“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

IfsMenWorldAbleSufferingReligiousEnemyPovertyIgnoranceSickMiseryDuesBarriersSuperstitionsIntoleranceInabilityPerversionReligious IntoleranceMicrobes
Author:Brock Chisholm
Create image

“Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .”

ThinkingUniverseProcessReligiousAnswersExistenceConsciousnessIgnoranceModelsCastsMysticalMagicianScopePitsOccultMaterialisticWishful ThinkingWantonFabricationMystical Experiences
Book:Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Create image

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.”

HumansDoeReasonReligiousPowerfulIgnoranceTruth IsConstantKillingSeekingConvictionSoleCompellingRecognizingMercifulBeing MeVariablesCompelling ReasonIrreligion
Author:David Bentley
Create image

“The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance”

PeopleHandsCertainImaginationReligiousForgetClearIgnoranceIntellectualBoundariesTheologyBranchesScience And ReligionComprehensionProvincesSusceptibleAntagonismShort Sighted
Book:Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions
Create image

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

WayNeedsFirstsWellsMayLongSeemsMightWould BeMovingForceReligiousAtheismIgnoranceTvsLosingHappeningsConcernedRootsMeetingsPositive AtheismDesertSuperstitionsPreacherCousinLong WayRevivalSecularismGarmentsFundamentalistCongregationTrance
Author:Phil Donahue
Create image

“So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.”

IfsMenWellsLongBookHandsPoliticalLeftReligiousHalfMoralTeacherIgnoranceCollegeGayPrejudiceGravesIncomeBreadServantDependentEditorsProfessorsInstructionJournalCompelledPublicationDaily Bread
Author:Frances Wright
Create image

“Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.”

ShouldSchoolChristianSpiritChurchReligiousExistenceIgnoranceUniversalSeparationRelatedRegulationTaxationPublic SchoolWipeFanaticsObservanceAnti ReligiousZealotReligious Fanatics
Book:The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty
Create image