Religion Quotes

Thomas jefferson - it is in our lives and not our words that our...
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Author Unknown
George santayana - each religion, by the help of more or less myth...
John adams - we have no government armed with power capable of...
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.
Rolland W. Schloe
Keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin
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
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick the Great
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".
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
Jonathan Swift
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard
There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
Author Unknown
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
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
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
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
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuh
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P. Whipple
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
John Owen
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
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luthe
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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 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
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
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
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
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
Geoffrey Parsons