Religion Quotes

Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Sean O'Casey

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Robert McAfee Brown

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Brigham Young

And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Louis Aragon

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

George Orwell

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

Sigmund Freud

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Ezra Pound

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Will Rogers

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

Abigail Adams, In a letter to Jo

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Andrea Dworkin

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Edgar Quinet

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

William Blake

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Karl Kraus

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin