Quotes about Religion, page 3

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Quote by Edna O'Brien about religion

The Puritan has passed, the Catholic remains.

Quote by William H. O'Connell about religion

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about religion

Religion is induced insanity.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about religion

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Quote by Frederick Law Olmsted about religion

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

Quote by Carl Olson about religion

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about religion

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about religion

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Quote by Robert Owen about religion

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Quote by Camille Paglia about religion

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion, but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about religion

The patient who pins his hope on the medicament is not a Christian, but he who puts his hope in God is a Christian.

Quote by Paracelsus about religion