Nonreligious Quotes

“To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is easy to see all that separates this mode of being in the world from the existence of a nonreligious man. First of all, the nonreligious man refuses transcendence, accepts the relativity of ' 'reality," and may even come to doubt the meaning of existence. The great cultures of the past too have not been entirely without nonreligious men, and it is not impossible that such men existed even on the archaic levels of culture, although as yet no testimony to their existence there has come to light. But it is only in the modern societies of the West that nonreligious man has developed fully. Modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to transcendence. In other words, he accepts no model for humanity outside the human condition as it can be seen in the various historical situations. Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.”
― Francis Perrin, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

“We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.
He asked me: “Do you pray?”
“No.”
“Do you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?”
“No.”
“Do you not thank God for his bounty?”
“No.”
“Do you not depend on God's support?”
“No.”
And with this his puzzlement increased until he was assured that my fate lies in hell indeed.”
― Khalil al-Sakakini