Religion Quotes

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

F. Forrester Church

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Hannah More

If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.

Rolland W. Schloe

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreise

Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

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

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

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

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

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

Jonathan Swift

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.

Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)

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 enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Mohammed Negui

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.

Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven

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

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Don Hirschberg

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H. L. Mencken

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

John Owen

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330

Religion is pickled God.

H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes