Mark Twain Quotes

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

No religion can be built on force.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage

Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

Toleration is the best religion.

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

They showed to us, moreover, with much derision the symbol of the cross. They spat upon it and wiped the feces from their posteriors with it. At last they urinated on it, as on some despicable thing, and threw our cross at us....

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours …. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

The reformists do not believe in inflicting their point of view on anyone, not even on the orthodox Bohras. They accept the right of the orthodox also to believe and practise what they want. Similarly, they do not want others to inflict their viewpoint on them or coerce them to accept their authority on pain of social boycott.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

None of us should sit in judgment in the way that anyone else practices his religion.