Quotes About God

As a post script to yesterday’s article, I thought it would be interesting to read what others have said about God and religion.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), attributed

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca (5 BC-65 AD)

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Every day, people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen R. Covey (1932- )

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama (1935- )

If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) attributed

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly (1928- )

Religion, whatever it is, is a man’s total reaction upon life.
William James (1842-1910)

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
F. Forrester Church

Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Saint Augustine (354 AD-430 AD)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Mother Theresa (1910-1997)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman (1904- )

I could prove God statistically.
George Gallop (1901-1984)

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire (1694-1778)