Religion Quotes
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.Anais Nin
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.Harvey Cox
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.Kahlil Gibran
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.Muhammad Ali
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.Alfred North Whitehead
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
Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.Morris Raphael Cohen
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
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 enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.Augustus Hare
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Religion is pickled God.H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
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
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.Archbishop William Temple, 1955
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
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
