Religion Quotes

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

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)

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

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

As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.

Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Robert Jackson

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

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

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

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

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Charles Krauthamme

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

Kahlil Gibran

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan