Religion Quotes
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is the opiate of the masses.Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
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
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.Ulysses S. Grant
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.Augustus Hare
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.T. S. Eliot
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.William Ralph Inge, 1920
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.Martin Luthe
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.James Madison
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
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
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.Author Unknown
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
