Religion Quotes

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
Voltaire
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Kahlil gibran - i love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in...
Voltaire - when its a question of money, everybody is of the...
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
Carl sagan - skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science...
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl Sagan
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
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
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Jonathan Swift
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
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
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
Mark Twain
As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.
Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
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
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
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
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.
Charles Krauthamme
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick the Great
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
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
Keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin
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
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
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De Balzac
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
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
Kahlil Gibran