Religion Quotes

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

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

Jonathan Swift

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac

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

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

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

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

England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.

Voltaire

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.

Archbishop William Temple, 1955

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

Voltaire

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

F. Forrester Church

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond - The - Fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill - File.

Unattributed truth from r. g. frp

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

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama

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

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Augustus Hare

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Don Hirschberg