Religious Sayings

Why do you write to me, to a sinful man, when you yourself are a holy man?

Religion is a disease.

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue.

The moral law is holy.

The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

Religion is the opium of the people.

The light of natural reason is sufficient to give us a clear and distinct conception of God.

The right of all sovereigns is derived from the people, not from God.

The existence of evil is a proof that God is not omnipotent, or not benevolent, or both.

The great advantage of the present-day bourgeoisie is to possess no moral, no ideal, no religion, no God, no sacred values.

Religion is, as it were, the last stop. The point where we give up.

I am firmly convinced that the better we know the world, the less we shall be inclined to believe in God and immortality.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

There is no nation in the world that has more need of religion than the English.

My own mind is my own church.

It is a melancholy truth; yet a truth it is, that women, as well as men, without a proper education, will ever be a prey to their prejudices.

It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, but the soul.

Sometimes I almost think that I am a pagan, and that I would rather worship the sun than any other god.

I do not say that the Americans are more religious than other people; but I say that they have a greater respect for religion.