Religion Quotes
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.Frederick Buechne
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish - world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.Sigmund Freud
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
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.Author Unknown
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.Robert Jackson
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
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
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 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
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.Elbert Hubbard
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
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol
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
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.Wendell Phillips
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.Jorge Luis Borges
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
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Religion is pickled God.H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.Muhammad Ali
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)
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
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".
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
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
