Religion Quotes
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.Ulysses S. Grant
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
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.Thomas Jefferson
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
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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
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.Charles Krauthamme
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.Samuel P. Huntington
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
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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 something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.Bertrand Russell
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
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 Lama
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.Jonathan Swift
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
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
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
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
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
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
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".
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
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.Napoleon
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.Gertrude Stein
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
