Religion Quotes
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
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
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 enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
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 Llama
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
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
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
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
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".
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.Gertrude Stein
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
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
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
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.Archbishop William Temple, 1955
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.F. Forrester Church
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.Jonathan Swift
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
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.Arthur C. Clarke
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 what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.Anais Nin
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.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.Muhammad Ali
