Frances Power Cobbe Quotes

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

Religion is the anchor of morality for most people.

I've never met a happy atheist.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less.