Religion Quotes

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Reinhold Niebuh

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

B. J. Gupta

Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

T. S. Eliot

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

Author Unknown

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

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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)

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

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

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

A cult is a religion with no political powe.

Tom Wolfe

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".

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

Arthur Shopenhaue

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

William Ralph Inge, 1920

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.

Rolland W. Schloe

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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