Religion Quotes
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.Reinhold Niebuh
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.Elbert Hubbard
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.Don Hirschberg
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
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
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
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.Gertrude Stein
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 Llama
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
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.Jonathan Swift
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
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
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
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.Anais Nin
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.Cicero
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
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
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
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 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
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
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.Voltaire
