Religion Quotes
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.Elbert Hubbard
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
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, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
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
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.Voltaire
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.Voltaire
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.Aldous Huxley
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
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
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
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
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
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
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.
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.Martin Luthe
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
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.Charles Krauthamme
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
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
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".
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
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
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
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
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.Cicero
