Religion Quotes

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol
H. g. wells, h. g. wells society - religion is pickled god....
Thomas jefferson - say nothing of my religion. it is known to god...
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Author unknown - there is a growing suspicion that what the world...
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.
Rolland W. Schloe
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Neil Postman
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
Jean Guehenno
A cult is a religion with no political powe.
Tom Wolfe
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.
Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
Robert Millikan
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
Jonathan Swift
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.
Samuel P. Huntington
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick the Great
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Archbishop William Temple, 1955
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