Religion Quotes
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
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
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)
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
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
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
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.
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.Author Unknown
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
Religion is the opiate of the masses.Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
Some people are that - More than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 05 - 04 - 04
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.Augustus Hare
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.Voltaire
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
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".
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
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.Jonathan Swift
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
