Religion Quotes

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Mohammed Negui

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

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

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

Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".

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)

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

Unknown

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

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

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

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 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

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Jonathan Swift

Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

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".

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

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.

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 what a person does in his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is pickled God.

H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H. L. Mencken