How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
Quotes About Religion
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows
— Letter from the Birmingham Jail
We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.
— The Church of Mercy
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
— The Revolt of the Angels
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
— Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funeral in Rome. It was the first time an American president had attended the funeral of a pope, let alone brought two of his predecessors.
— Decision Points
The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
— Summa Contra Gentiles
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
— Self-Reliance
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
— The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
— Thus Spoke Zarathustra
And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?
— Mrs. Dalloway
Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
— The Plague
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
— Anna Karenina
I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
— The World As I See It