Quotes on Religion God

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.