Religion Quotes

There is no religion higher than the truth.

H Hahn Blavatsky

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

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

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

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

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

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 idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick the Great

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 Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish - world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

Sigmund Freud

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

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

Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Frederick Buechne

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

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

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

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

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

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

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