Religion Quotes
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.
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 the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.Charles Krauthamme
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
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
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
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
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
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
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 artist needs no religion beyond his work.Elbert Hubbard
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.Jonathan Swift
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
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
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
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
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
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
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
Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)
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
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
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
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
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
Religion is the opiate of the masses.Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.H. L. Mencken
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
