Warren Weaver Quotes

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

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

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.