Religion Quotes

The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

H. L. Mencken

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

H. L. Mencken

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Calvin Coolidge

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne Lafollette

Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

H. L. Mencken

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Matthew Fox

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Simone Weil

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Samuel Johnson

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

Samuel Johnson

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Mary Douglas

Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

Lydia Maria Child

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

Colin Hanks

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Gene Robinson

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Ian Mcewan

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Bodhidharma

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Pat Robertson

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Tim Bishop

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

Kerry King