Religion Quotes

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Carl Jung
George bernard shaw, plays pleasant and unpleasant (1898) - there is only one religion, though there are a...
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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
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Archbishop William Temple, 1955
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The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Author Unknown
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luthe
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
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
Thomas Jefferson
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
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
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
Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish - world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
Sigmund Freud
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
William Ralph Inge, 1920
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.
Arthur C. Clarke