Religion Quotes

Percy bysshe shelley - we are all greeks. our laws, our literature, our...
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.
Charles Krauthamme
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
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".
Robert millikan - i conceive the essential task of religion to be...
Charlotte bronte - conventionality is not morality. self -...
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
Augustus Hare
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Neil Postman
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
The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
George Eliot
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.
Aldous Huxley
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuh
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
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
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
George Santayana
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
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
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Jonathan Swift
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
Alfred North Whitehead
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
Alan Simpson
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Author Unknown
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
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.
Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
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