Into Motivation

Quotes by William Herbert Carruth "Some call it Evolution, And others call it God". Quotes by Thomas Carlyle "If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Prostestant Religion". Quotes by Jane Montgomery Campbell "We plough the fields, and scatter, The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered, By ... Read More

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley "Kings, priests, and statesmen, blast the human flower, Even in its tender bud; their influence darts, Like subtle poison through the bloodless veins, Of desolate society. Earth groans beneath religion's iron age, And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood. From the dust of creeds outworn. The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew, Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven ... Read More

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