religion

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do. Holy Bible: New International Version

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. The World As I See It (Albert Einstein / ISBN:1585092878)

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

God has no religion.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition? I, Asimov: A Memoir

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. Paradise Lost

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. Angels and Demons

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. Notebooks 1951-1959

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. The God Delusion

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." (<em>Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville</em>, May 16, 1767)

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. Hannah and Her Sisters

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. Brain Droppings

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to "God" are all answered at about the same 50% rate. Brain Droppings

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.