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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Themes and Variations
- Philosophy
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
- Christianity
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
What a queer thing is Christian salvation! Believing in firemen will not save a burning house; believing in doctors will not make one well, but believing in a savior saves men. Fudge!
LWLemuel Washburn
- Anti-Religion
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don’t.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris1928–2026
- Anti-Religion
- Science
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Stride Toward Freedom (1958), pp. 28-29
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972“Exchange of Messages With Pope Pius XII,” American Presidency Project (August 28, 1947)
- America
- Christianity
At least five times…with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Everlasting Man
- Christianity
Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.
DPDennis Potter1935–1994
- Anti-Religion
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Christianity
Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
- Christianity
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis1859–1939Often credited to Thomas Paine