#religion

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. ↗

— William Barclay

#fails #men #religion #speak

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#expect #family #got #know #like

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#anna #anna-sewell #black-beauty #kindness #love

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#am #because #i #i am #religion

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't. ↗

— Jack Dee

#discard #effect #however #i #liked

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#crutch #go #need #noses #numbers

Science will always be the source of authority for those who wish to remove God from their thinking. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#faith

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#birthday #bitter #creator #creatures #divides

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#ends #knowledge #religion #where