Famous Religious Quotes in English with Images

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

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

The only time anyone’s admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they’re better than me.

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

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 great thing.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity.  We are senses to receive our information within.  With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel.  With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.

When I do good; I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

- Religious Quotes by Carl Sandburg

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

- James Feibleman Quotes Download or Share

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

Everybody likes to go their own way-to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.