Religion Quotes
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
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.Archbishop William Temple, 1955
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
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
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.Frederick the Great
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.Ulysses S. Grant
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
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
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.Don Hirschberg
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.Cicero
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.Voltaire
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
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
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
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
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
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.William Ralph Inge, 1920
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond - The - Fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill - File.Unattributed truth from r. g. frp
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 Lama
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Hannah More
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
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
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.H. L. Mencken
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.Jorge Luis Borges
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
