Religion Quotes
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.Richard Adams
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.Jonathan Swift
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.Anais Nin
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.Jonathan Swift
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Hannah More
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.Napoleon
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
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.Voltaire
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.Voltaire
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.Thomas Jefferson
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.Wendell Phillips
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
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
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
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.F. Forrester Church
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
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.Albert Einstein
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
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
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.Elbert Hubbard
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
