religion Quotes

“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

topic:religion belief

“There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

topic:religion good evil

“Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

topic:religion society

“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:religion man importance

“If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word 'gods' has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed”

― Paul Thiry d'Holbach,

topic:religion ignorance

“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution; it's their best advertising.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:reality religion science

“Men of god and men of war have strange affinities.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

topic:religion war

“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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