Religion Quotes (page 2)

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• cans
• reforming
• never

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. Robert Green Ingersoll

• religious
• responsibility
• moments

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar

• time
• easily
• all time greatest

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time. George Carlin

• patience
• god
• life

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more. David Herbert Lawrence

• opiate
• opiates
• religions

Religion is the opiate of the people! Philip Roth

• saying
• mystic
• happening

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them. Ram Dass

• simple
• peace
• faith

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite; it is the true center of gravity of our life. This we can attain during our childhood by daily living in a place where the truth of the spiritual world is not obscured by a crowd of necessities assuming artificial importance; where life is simple,... Rabindranath Tagore

• love
• marriage
• busy

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Neil Gaiman

• wise
• ignorance
• true

Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• manly
• fool
• met

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. - Mark Twain Mark Twain

• humanity
• mind
• mindfulness

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. Susan Sontag

• random
• randomly
• randomness

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. Wally Lamb

• spring
• springing
• madness

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• spiritual
• hell
• go to hell

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there. Elizabeth Gilbert

• worship
• humanity
• biology

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... H. P. Lovecraft