Religion Quotes
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.Wendell Phillips
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.Cicero
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond - The - Fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill - File.Unattributed truth from r. g. frp
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.Albert Einstein
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.Thomas Jefferson
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.Author Unknown
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.William Ralph Inge
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.Voltaire
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.George Eliot
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.Geoffrey Parsons
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.Thomas Jefferson
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.Elbert Hubbard
