Religion Quotes
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish - world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.Sigmund Freud
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.James Madison
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.Wendell Phillips
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
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.William Ralph Inge, 1920
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
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.Gertrude Stein
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
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
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
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.Voltaire
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
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
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
Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.John Owen
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.Charles Krauthamme
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.
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
