Religion Quotes

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

Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04

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

There is no religion higher than the truth.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".

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

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

Author Unknown

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

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

Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767

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

Carl Sagan

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

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

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Elbert Hubbard

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Elbert Hubbard

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

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

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

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Religion is pickled God.

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

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

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

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)

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

Woodrow Wilson

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca