“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
— C.S. Lewis“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
— John Keats“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
— Abraham Lincoln“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
— Dalai Lama XIV“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
— Mark Twain“Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”
— Anonymous“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”
— Walt Whitman“Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”
— Steve Maraboli“There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.”
— Kirk Cameron“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
— Shannon L. Alder“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
— James Baldwin“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”
— David Mitchell“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
— José Saramago“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
— Gautama Buddha“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
— Shannon L. Alder“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
— Carl Sagan“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”
— Deng Ming-Dao“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
— Marcel Duchamp“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”
— Bill Watterson“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
— Woody Allen“Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”
— Woody Allen“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
— George Bernard Shaw“The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).”
— Terry Pratchett“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
— Fulton J. Sheen“belief is the death of intelligence.”
— Robert Anton Wilson“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
— Douglas Coupland“The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
— Stefan Molyneux“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”
— Paulo Coelho“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”
— Lafcadio Hearn“Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”
— Noah Levine“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.”
— Brad Pitt“My religion is to live - and die - without regret.”
— Milarepa“The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.”
— Charles Slagle“Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.”
— Shunya“As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.”
— Epictetus“Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;”
— United States Congress“Do you believe in God, doctor?No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.”
— Albert Camus“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”
— Kamand Kojouri“When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our 'wishlist' because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.”
— Shunya“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson“Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!”
— Fulton J. Sheen“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
— Augustine of Hippo“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
— Frank Herbert“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”
— Therese Doucet