Religion Quotes
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
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.Voltaire
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.Deepak Chopra
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.Aldous Huxley
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
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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.Archbishop William Temple, 1955
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.Matthew Arnold
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
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
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.Author Unknown
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
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
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".
Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.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 candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
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
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.Author Unknown
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
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.Jonathan Swift
