Religion Quotes

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreise

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon

As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.

Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767

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

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Deepak Chopra

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple