Religion Quotes
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Religion is pickled God.H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society
There shall be no compulsion in religion.Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
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
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
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
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
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
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 enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.H. L. Mencken
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.Charles Krauthamme
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
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.Voltaire
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.Frederick the Great
Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.T. S. Eliot
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
Religion is the opiate of the masses.Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.William Ralph Inge, 1920
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.Thomas Paine
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.Don Hirschberg
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.Rolland W. Schloe
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.Jonathan Swift
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
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.Elbert Hubbard
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
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
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
