Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

A Christian will say... "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.

I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.