Man Made Religion Quotes

#1. I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

George Carlin

#2. A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.

Ashley Gardner

#3. Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#4. They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Geoffrey Wood

#5. My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Although it is undoubtedly true man was created by God;
it is just as true that man was "made" by Satan."
The Milkweed Prophesy; Epitaph of the Apocalypse

Milkweed L. Augustine

#7. Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.

Sri Chinmoy

#8. Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#11. If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.

Theodore Dreiser

#12. A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Ja Rule

#14. I believe religion is man-made.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#15. Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. Religion, which true policy befriends,
Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
Made the chief party in its own decay,
And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

Katherine Philips

#17. I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

Vera Farmiga

#18. Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.

Christopher Hitchens

#19. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

Karl Marx

#20. Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

Mircea Eliade

#21. Made to observe the vastness of our world, the greater breadth and depth of stars unfurled, the mind can grasp an order and a plan and ponder the deep question, "Who is man?

Mary Angeline Bell

#22. Any law that belittles God is man made.

Auliq Ice

#23. One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

C.S. Lewis

#25. It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

Vera Farmiga

#26. Te Rau Tauwhare was a man for whom the act of love was the true religion, and the altar of this religion was one in place of which no idols could be made.

Eleanor Catton

#27. I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Emma Goldman

#28. Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Vaclav Klaus

#29. It's literature that provides solace to hearts wounded by man made divisions of religion, race, class, gender and class...

Neelam Saxena Chandra

#30. Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Benito Mussolini

#31. The Bible, of course, for aside from religion there is much to be learned of men and their ways in the Bible. It is also a source of comments made of references and figures of speech. No man could consider himself educated without some knowledge of it.

Louis L'Amour

#32. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan W. Watts

#33. In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#34. Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

Abhijit Naskar

#35. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Christopher Hitchens

#36. Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check
agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

Luther Burbank

#37. The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

Arthur C. Clarke

#38. If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

David Friedrich Strauss

#39. Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

George Santayana

#40. I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It's a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you'll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

John Lydon

#41. It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

Ricky Martin