Religion Quotes
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
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.Augustus Hare
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
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 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
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
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
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 pickled God.H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.Stendhal
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.Frederick the Great
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.William Ralph Inge, 1920
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.Muhammad Ali
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.Voltaire
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
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
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
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
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
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
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
