Religion Quotes
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.Voltaire
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
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.Matthew Arnold
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.Author Unknown
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.Reinhold Niebuh
Religion is the opiate of the masses.Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.Elbert Hubbard
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.Deepak Chopra
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
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
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 enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.Elbert Hubbard
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 Llama
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.Anais Nin
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
