Quotes on “religion”

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.