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1. "If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Letters on England"

Quotations about: History and Nations

2. "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

3. "We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe."

Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life"

Quotations about: Various

4. "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy-the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "A Treatise on Toleration"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness -:- Science and Technology

5. "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr, "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death

6. "In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce."

Francesco Caracciolo

Quotations about: History and Nations

7. "God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

8. "Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you.... Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

St. Francis de Sales, "Introduction to the Devout Life"

9. "Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

10. "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

Susan B. Anthony

Quotations about: Trust

11. "Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation of Christ"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

12. "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: Various

13. "The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

Matthew Arnold, "Literature and Dogma"

14. "They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

Emily Dickinson

15. "Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

16. "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

William James

Quotations about: Various

17. "Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."

Paul Tillich, "Christianity and the Encounter of the World Reli"

Quotations about: Life and Death

18. "A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "Minna von Barnhelm"

19. "God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."

Alfred Jarry, "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, ..."

20. "In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."

Robert Runcie

Quotations about: Various

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21. "God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

John Donne, "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

22. "Religion is a great force: the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours."

George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

23. "Men despise religion; they hate it and fear it is true."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

24. "The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

25. "Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men."

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Human

26. "Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

27. "Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Jean Anouilh, "The Lark"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

28. "Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy."

G. I. Gurdjieff

29. "Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."

Henry Brooks Adams

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

30. "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

31. "See in what peace a Christian can die."

Joseph Addison, (last words)

Quotations about: Life and Death

32. "God, that checkroom of our dreams."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

33. "Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize."

Jaroslav Pelikan, "Jesus Through the Centuries"

Quotations about: Various

34. "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."

Henny Youngman

35. "I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent."

Anon.

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

36. "The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."

Eric Hoffer

37. "Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

Heywood Broun

38. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

39. "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

40. "There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

41. "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

42. "God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

Arabic proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

43. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

44. "Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God."

Evelyn Waugh

45. "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Human

46. "Life + Desire = Man; Life - Desire = God"

Sathya Sai Baba

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Human

47. "To me faith is not just a noun but also a verb."

Jimmy Carter

Quotations about: Trust

48. "Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Life and Death

49. "God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend."

Charles Spurgeon

Quotations about: Forgiveness

50. "Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness."

G. I. Gurdjieff

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