Religion Quotes
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
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
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
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
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.Thomas Jefferson
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.Charles Krauthamme
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
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
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
There shall be no compulsion in religion.Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
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
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
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 the human response to being alive and having to die.F. Forrester Church
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.Author Unknown
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.Don Hirschberg
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.Muhammad Ali
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.Voltaire
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.Arthur C. Clarke
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.Thomas Paine
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
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 a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
