Famous Quotes

"Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion."

Mary Astell on Religion

More quotes about Religion

• "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

  Dalai Lama on Religion

• "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

• "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

  Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Mary Astell

• "Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."

• "The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

• "But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

• "God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

• "Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."