Religion Quotes

"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will" "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods." "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." "Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." "Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again." "Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor." "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality." "Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion." "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." "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." "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." "I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."