Religion Quotes

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac

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

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

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

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

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

Muhammad Ali

There is no religion higher than the truth.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Don Hirschberg

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

A. J. Toynbee

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

Woodrow Wilson

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263

Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Charles Krauthamme

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

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

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.

Samuel P. Huntington

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Augustus Hare

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold