Into Motivation

Quotes by Charles Robert Darwin "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Deity". Quotes by William Cowper "Oh! for a closer walk with God". Quotes by Sir Noel Coward "Life without faith ... Read More

Quotes by Jonathan Swift "We have just enough religion us hate, but not enough to make us love one another". Quotes by August Strindberg "To search for God and to find the Devil - that is what happened to me". Quotes by Robert Louis "Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort". Quotes by Laurence Sterne "Whenever a man talks loudly against religion - always suspect that it is not his ... Read More

Quotes by John Dryden "Yet dull religion teaches us content; But when we ask it where that blessing dwells, It points to pedant colleges and cells. In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin. Gods they had tried of every shape and size, That godsmiths could produce or priests devise. So over-violent or over-civil, that every man with him was God or Devil. Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, And never broke the Sabbath but for gain. ... Read More

Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry - every man of every nation has done that - 'tis the living up to it that is difficult". Quotes by Tertullian "One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion". Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. There lives more faith in ... Read More

Quotes by Anne Frank "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one jew does is thrown back at all Jews". Quotes by William Norman Ewer "How odd Of God To choose The Jews". Quotes by Epicurus "It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain for himself". Quotes by Empedocles "The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere". Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Shove Jesus and Judas ... Read More

Quotes by Henry ll "[On Thomas a' Becket] Will no one free me of this turbulent priest?" Quotes by William Ernest Henley "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul". Quotes by Joseph Heller "Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth-decay in His divine system of Creation?" Quotes by Heinrich Heine "Christianity is an idea, ... Read More

Quotes by Walter Whitman "I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake". Quotes by Katherine Whitehorn "We were discussing the possibility of making one of our cats Pope recently, and we decided that the fact that she was not Italian and was female, made the third point, that she was a cat, quite irrelevant". Quotes by Isaac Watts "Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our ... Read More