JACQUES GAUVIN, RELIGION

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Quotes About Religion

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn?t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
~Emo Philips, stand~up comedian

How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.
~Samuel Levenson

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
~G.K. Chesterton

I don?t believe in atheists.
~Neal Boortz

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
~Peter O?Toole

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ?O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.? And God granted it.
~Voltaire

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
~Thomas Paine

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~Bertrand Russell

The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooist brutality, is patently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with the dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.
~John Adams

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion?several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn?t straight.
~Mark Twain

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~Galileo Galilei

Which is it: Is man one of God?s blunders or is God one of man?s?
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God?s second mistake.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
~Thomas Paine

We have fossils... We win!
~Lewis Black, on creationism

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
~Lin Yutang

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
~Voltaire

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
~Voltaire

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
~William Shakespeare

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
~Aubrey Menan

Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
~Oscar Wilde

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
~G.K. Chesterton

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
~Eric Hoffer

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
~Steven Weinberg, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
~Thomas Jefferson

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
~Voltaire

The Darwin^s theory of evolution, in this day and age, is an insult to man^s intelligence.
Jacques Gauvin

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
~Voltaire, on his deathbed, to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
~Pierre Laplace, to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God

When someone tells me that ?the Almighty told me to do this,? I want to see the transcript.
~Fred Reed

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
~Albert Einstein

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

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one^s soul, with all one^s goodness and righteousness.
~Albert Einstein

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one^s own smug sense of superiority.
~Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show

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