Religion Quotes
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
Religion is pickled God.H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society
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
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
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
Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.T. S. Eliot
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
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.Author Unknown
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.Frederick Buechne
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
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
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.Rolland W. Schloe
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.William Ralph Inge
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.Elbert Hubbard
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
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.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
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
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
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
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
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
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
