Keith Miller Quotes

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Religion in its essence requires theological arrogance.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Religion is just mind control.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

Religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women, and coercive toward children.

It has always worried me that certain men of the Church have not understood that torture is never humane or Christian.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women

Religion is all profit. They have no merchandise to buy, no commissions to pay, and no refunds to make for unsatisfactory service and results....Their commodity is fear.

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

We only have victory over satan when we walk in the Spirit in Christ Jesus.

If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!

My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.