Famous Religious Quotes

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
By Clarence Darrow on Agnosticism

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.
By Stephen Colbert on Atheism

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
By G.K. Chesterton on Atheists

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
By Carl Sandburg on Babies

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
By George Bernard Shaw on Believing and Drinking

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
By Benjamin Disraeli on Born to Believe

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car.
By Garrison Keiler on Church Going

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
By Douglas Adams on Creation

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
By William Shakespeare on Devil

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
By Frederick Buechner on Doubt

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
By Charles Wesley on Faith

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
By Saint Augustine on Faith

Man proposes, but God disposes.
By Thomas A Kempis on Fate

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
By Magellan on Flat Earth

God enters by a private door into every individual
By Ralph Waldo on God

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
By Oscar Wilde on God and Man

I live and love in God's peculiar light.
By Michelangelo on God's Light

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
By St. Francis of Assisi on God's Work

A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.
By John Fischer on Good Man

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
By Francis Bacon on Goodness

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
By Richard J. Foster on Heart of God

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
By Aldous Huxley on Hell

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
By Thomas Fuller on Hypocrisy

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
By Isaac Asimov on Ignorance

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
By C.S. Lewis on Importance of Christianty

By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us.
By Becky Laird on Living

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
By Robert A. Heinlein on Magic as Science

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
By Cicero on Nature and God

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
By Thomas Jefferson on Privacy

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
By Dalai Lama on Religion

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
By Sigmund Freud on Religion

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
By Voltaire on Religious Diversity

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
By Mahatma Gandhi on Religious Study

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
By Jules Feiffer on Sacrifice of Christ

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
By Arthur C. Clarke on Science is Magic

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
By Albert Einstein on True Religion

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.
By Joseph Fort Newton on Truth

Woman was God’s second mistake.
By Friedrich Nietzsche on Women and God

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
By D.H. Lawrence on Your Own Religion