Religion Quotes
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.Voltaire
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.William Ralph Inge
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.Jonathan Swift
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.Rolland W. Schloe
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
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
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
A cult is a religion with no political powe.Tom Wolfe
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.Napoleon Bonaparte
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.Voltaire
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.Jonathan Swift
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
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.Martin Luthe
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
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
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
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.Don Hirschberg
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
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
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
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
