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The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Morality
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
John Locke1632–1704An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 18
- Anti-Religion
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937“The Temple”—Written 1920; first published in Weird Tales, 6 No. 3 (September 1925)
- Anti-Religion
- Thinking
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937Letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930)
- Anti-Religion
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew.
Martin Luther1483–1546The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 74
- Christianity
- Faith
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, “Repent,” he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
Martin Luther1483–1546Ninety-five Theses (1517), Thesis 1
- Christianity
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 250.
- Christianity
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 148
- Christianity
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
George MacDonald1824–1905From a letter to his father, quoted in George MacDonald and His Wife (1924) by Greville MacDonald
- Christianity
Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to Edward Livingston (10 July 1822)
- Government
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maherborn 1956Be More Cynical (2000)
- Christianity
If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I’d check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.
Bill Maherborn 1956Larry King Live, 11 August 2005; in response to a called-in question if he would become a believer if the Lord spoke to him
- Anti-Religion
- Clever Jabs
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- Theology
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by MephistophilisIn context
- God