Religious Sayings

114 sayings found from the Modern era from 114 authors

This church, being 'the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased.'

— Joseph Smith 1831
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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

— James Clerk Maxwell 1870s (approximate)
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Doctor, you have science, I have faith.

— Dmitri Mendeleev 1907
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You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.

— Emperor Hirohito Post-1946 (after renouncing divinity)
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I do not call myself a Christian.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1854–1855
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Our noble souls are racist.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1961
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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

— Edgar Allan Poe Undated
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

— Walt Whitman Undated
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Your Church has in this matter been far more thorough than the Protestant. It has never denied Ars Magica, though it has denounced it'.

— William Butler Yeats 1893
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I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

— William Randolph Hearst Early 20th century (approximate)
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I am a simple Russian peasant. I simply pray to God and know how to heal.

— Rasputin Early 1900s (approximate)
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I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land...

— Frederick Douglass 1845
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

— Alfred Hitchcock Approx. 1960s
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Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

— Charlie Chaplin Unknown
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Language and religion do not make a race—there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

— Benjamin Disraeli 1844
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I am not a believer in the theory of evolution. I believe in the theory of creation. I believe that God created the world and everything in it.

— Thomas Edison 1910
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

— Erwin Schrodinger Unknown
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The idea of a 'soul' is a philosophical concept, not a scientific one.

— Alan Turing Unknown
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There is no scientific evidence for the existence of a soul.

— Francis Crick 1994
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I care not for a man's religion, or his lack of it, so long as his life is right.

— Abraham Lincoln 1850s-1860s (approximate)
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