Quotes on Religion

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.