Religion Quotes
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
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.Jonathan Swift
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
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
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
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
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.Albert Einstein
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.Author Unknown
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
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 the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.Augustus Hare
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.Voltaire
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.Napoleon Bonaparte
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.Archbishop William Temple, 1955
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.Alfred North Whitehead
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
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
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.Sigmund Freud
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
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
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.Cicero
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
