Religious

(87 votes)   A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Abigail van Buren

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(62 votes)   A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(47 votes)   A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(43 votes)   A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

Source Unknown

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(60 votes)   A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(43 votes)   A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(51 votes)   A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(262 votes)   A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Kern Feibleman

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(46 votes)   A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(355 votes)   A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(93 votes)   A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Henry Louis Mencken

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(86 votes)   A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Reinhold Niebuhr
1892-1971, American Theologian, Historian

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(44 votes)   All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(456 votes)   And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(152 votes)   Begin to weave and God will give you the thread.

German Proverb

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website