Quotes on “religion”

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.