Religion Quotes
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
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.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
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
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.T. S. Eliot
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.Augustus Hare
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
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
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.James Madison
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
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.Jorge Luis Borges
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.Martin Luthe
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.William Ralph Inge, 1920
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.F. Forrester Church
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.Archbishop William Temple, 1955
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.Jonathan Swift
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
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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
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
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
