God and Religion Quotes
Top 40 God and Religion Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- St. Augustine (354-430) ,
Algerian philosopher, pictured right.
A writer and philosopher agree:
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible
- St. Thomas Aquinas
(1225-74), the Italian philosopher, pictured right.
Faith is the most important factor in religious questions,
(Alberto in Sophie's World)
- Jostein Gaarder (1952-), Norwegian writer, pictured right.
No 2
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion
(in the preface of Jane Eyre)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-55),
English writer, pictured right
No 3
God is conscience.
- Mahatma ( Mohandas)
Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian leader, pictured right.
No 4
God is dead.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900), German philosopher, pictured right.
(New York graffiti expanded this into: “God is dead – Nietzsche. Nietzsche is dead – God.”!).
Voltaire (1694-1778) the French writer
and philosopher, pictured right, disagrees:
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
No 5
To love another person is to see the face of God,
(from the musical, Les Misérables)
- Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman in the 2012 film, pictured right).
No 6
Unto you your religion and unto me my religion.
- Muhammad (570-632) founder of the
Islamic religion.
The English clergyman Robert Burton (1577–1640), pictured right, put it this way:
One religion is as true as another.
No 7
Religion is ...the opium of the people.
-Karl Marx (1818–83), German
philosopher, pictured right.
No 8
One and God make a majority.
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895),
American civil rights campaigner, pictured right.
William Lloyd Garrison
(1805-79), the American anti-slavery campaigner, pictured right, says something similar:
Better to be always in a minority of one with God, in defence of the right.
No 9
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.,
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-
born American scientist, pictured right.
The English scientist, Stephen Hawking
(1942- ), pictured right, disagrees:
Science makes God unnecessary.
John Paul II (1920-2005), pictured right, the Polish
pope, says:
Science can purify religion from error and superstition
No 10
I do not believe...I know (talking about his belief in God).
- Carl Jung (1875-1961), pictured right,
the Swiss psychologist, agrees:
No 11
It is heart which experiences God, and not the reason,
- Blaise Pascal 1623–62 French
scientist and philosopher), pictured right.
No 12
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is
that basically he's an underachiever.
(from the 1975 film Love and Death)
- Woody Allen (1935- ), pictured right, American film actor and director.
No 13
If this were no best among all possible worlds, God would not have created it.
- Gottfried Leibniz
(1646-1716) German philosopher and mathematician, pictured right.
No 14
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- Edmund Burke (1729-97) Irish-born
British philosopher and politician, pictured right.
No 15
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
(Antonio in The Merchant of
Venice) .
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 16
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth.
- Richard Dawkins (1941- ), English
scientist, pictured right.
No 17
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French
mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, pictured right.
No 18
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
- Edmund Burke (1729-97) Irish-born
British philosopher and politician, pictured right.
No 19
Men are always willing to believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) , Roman leader),
pictured right.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62), the
French scientist and philosopher, pictured right, agrees:
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find
attractive.
No 20
My religion is kindness.
- Dalai Lama (1935- ) spiritual leader of Tibet,
pictured right.
No 21
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), American president,
pictured right.
No 22
Religionless Christianity.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-45),German theologian, pictured right.
No 23
The test of a religion or philosophy is the number of things it can explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American writer and philosopher), pictured right.
No 24
The greater the vitality of religion, the more it may either support or endanger morality.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1901)
American theologian), pictured right.
No 25
My mind is my own church.
(stating his preference for intellectual reason and thought over religion).
- Thomas Paine (1737–1809),
English philosopher, pictured right.
No 26
God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.
- Voltaire (1694–1778), French writer
and philosopher), pictured right.
No 27
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- David Hume (1711- 76), Scottish
philosopher), pictured right.
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No 28
People sometimes ask me: where was God in the Holocaust? But the real question is: where was humanity?,
(explaining that the Holocaust was caused by ignoring God’s teaching of love)
- Jonathan Sachs, Britain’s Chief Rabbi 1993-2013, pictured right.
No 29
We are primarily united with God by an act of understanding.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
(c.1225–74), Italian philosopher, pictured right.
No 30
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
German philosopher), pictured right.
No 31
In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty.
- David Hume (1711- 76),
Scottish philosopher), pictured right.
Another atheist, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), the English
philosopher, pictured right, also comments:
The Christian religion ... has been and still is the principal enemy of moral
progress in the world
No 32
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking
- William Inge (1860-1954), the English writer and Anglican priest, pictured right
No 33
Prayer is indeed good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand,
- Hippocrates (460-370 BC), doctor in Ancient
Greece), pictured right.
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895),
American civil rights campaigner), pictured right, said something similar about his freedom from slavery:
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
No 34
Religion is an illusion.
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian
psychiatrist), pictured right.
No 35
If you think you have understood God, it is not God who you have understood.
- St. Augustine (354-430),
Algerian philosopher), pictured right.
No 36
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails,
- St. Augustine (354-430),
Algerian philosopher, pictured right.
No 37
God has called me not to be successful but to be faithful.
- Mother Teresa (1910-97), Albanian
nun and charity worker, pictured right.
No 38
Whatever is, is in God.
- Benedict (or Baruch)
Spinoza (1632-77), Dutch philosopher), pictured right
No 39
It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
- Patrick Henry (1736-99), American
revolutionary politician, pictured right.
No 40
God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa (1910-97), Albanian
nun and charity worker, pictured right.
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