Top 98 Money Religion Quotes
#1. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Andrew Carnegie
#2. Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I don't just mean making money. The notion of getting together as a community to remind ourselves why we shouldn't behave like animals is a fucking great idea.
Nick Offerman
#3. The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!
In all honesty, hate has no fate.
But greed does it needs money, its faith.
Zarina Bibi
#5. I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.
Costa-Gavras
#6. Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides
#8. Ideas that change business models and who can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.
John Day
#9. I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.
Matt Lanter
#10. Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.
Christine Quinn
#11. So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
John Locke
#12. Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
L. Ron Hubbard
#13. Scientology , how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?
Frank Zappa
#14. Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.
H.W. Charles
#15. It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.
Terry Pratchett
#16. Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.
Sam Harris
#17. Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
Horace Greeley
#18. The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.
William Hageman
#19. Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.
Ivar Giaever
#20. I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
A. Whitney Brown
#21. The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).
Alice Von Hildebrand
#22. Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.
Timothy Leary
#23. A waste of time and money
is the beautiful and wonderful projection of peace.
The Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
December 28, 2016
Petra Hermans
#24. Ah, the smell of old money, bribery, and religion first thing in the morning," Abriella said in a long sigh. "Smells like home, girls.
Bethany-Kris
#25. Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
Ellen Hopkins
#26. Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people
Sunday Adelaja
#27. I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
Angie Stone
#28. Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice Walker
#29. The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Money is behind every war, religion is but an excuse, or perhaps a justification
Brandon Sanderson
#31. I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.
Marjane Satrapi
#32. Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
Philip Schaff
#33. For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
Dan Barker
#34. I used to always worry about money and where it would come from, but now I know that God is the supplier and the giver of good gifts.
Jean Coleman
#35. Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so - pardon the pun - so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.
Stephen King
#36. I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.
Mohsin Hamid
#37. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled
Brene Brown
#38. Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.
Vera Caspary
#39. Serving people is more important to God than the religious activities we engage in
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants.
Glenn Beck
#41. When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion
Voltaire
#43. Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Khushwant Singh
#44. I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.
Lenny Bruce
#45. Don't just bring religion to people but also change their value system
Sunday Adelaja
#46. The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma - that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.
Amos Oz
#47. I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.
Sarah Silverman
#48. For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.
Sean S. Kamali
#49. Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket.
Steve Maraboli
#50. Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one
Sunday Adelaja
#51. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
#52. Don't just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Talk openly about important issues like money, sex, and religion. They can affect your life and happiness a great deal. Especially when it comes to cults.
Jesse Petersen
#54. Since in the world you imagines, a world without power and money, with no prohibitions, with no pain or death, each man would be God, and God therefore would not be possible. He would be a lie, because His attributes would be those of every man, woman and child: grace, immortality and supreme good.
Carlos Fuentes
#55. Monstrous wars that had killed tens of thousands of innocent people weren't enough to inspire enlightened self-interest. Tiny loans, on the other hand, were. Money has no religion.
Bob Harris
#56. There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
Terry Pratchett
#58. [U]sing religion to treat depression often makes the problem worse. It's like treating the disease with more of the disease. It is effective in getting people to give time and money to the church, but it does not help the victim.
Darrel Ray
#59. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler
#60. I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if I want to control the people. The answer would be sex. Money. And definitive knowledge of the afterlife. Then I'd make fantastically pleasant rules surrounding every one of them.
Dan Pearce
#61. The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.
P.D. James
#62. Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.
Frank Schaeffer
#63. Money and religion are perfect alloy.
Toba Beta
#64. People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money. Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?
Yuval Noah Harari
#65. There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
J.C. Ryle
#66. If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.
Hugh Martin
#67. My talent is that I do not appreciate money
in the way
the world appreciates money.
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
November 16, 2016
Petra Hermans
#68. Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. You buy and sell your way into His presence for more money, as if that makes any difference to Him. You fight and kill each other over who knows Him best. It's an unending farce. And yet, He forgives you. He loves you.
David W. Moore III
#70. My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.
James McBride
#71. Scientology is a power-and-money-and-intelligence-gathering game.
L. Ron Hubbard
#72. Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
Brendan Behan
#73. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money or prestige or fame or any of those things - doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else.
J.D. Salinger
#75. I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.
L. Ron Hubbard
#76. Don't act based on religion; always have a purpose and focus
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires.
Yuval Noah Harari
#78. They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors. Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land;
Frederick Douglass
#79. If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#80. PAPA: This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home.
NASSER: But that country has been sodomized by religion. It is beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere, it is a little heaven here.
Hanif Kureishi
#81. I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Dave Davies
#83. I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.
Donald Miller
#84. To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
Baron De Montesquieu
#85. Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
Leon M. Lederman
#86. I believe in God ... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.
V.C. Andrews
#87. I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.
Richard Rossi
#88. Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.
Hunter S. Thompson
#89. A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#90. The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.
Bono
#91. The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
Mason Cooley
#92. If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#93. While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.
H.W. Charles
#94. Every day is exciting when you don't live your life based on religion alone
Sunday Adelaja
#96. When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in ... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
Robert E. Howard
#98. When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.
Tanya Masse
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