Religion Quotes

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

Unknown

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

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

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Sigmund Freud

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

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

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Honore De Balzac

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

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

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

Jonathan Swift

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

F. Forrester Church

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

Matthew Arnold

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kahlil Gibran

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

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

Muhammad Ali

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck