Religion Quotes

Aldous huxley - you never see animals going through the absurd...
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
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
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.
Rolland W. Schloe
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
Horace bushnell - morality, taken as apart from religion, is but...
George santayana - matters of religion should never be matters of...
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
William Hiram Foulkes
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Archbishop William Temple, 1955
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Carl Jung
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
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 a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
Author Unknown
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
F. Forrester Church
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.
Arthur C. Clarke
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
Jonathan Swift
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
Alfred North Whitehead
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
Jean Guehenno
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
As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.
Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263
Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde
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
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut
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
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
Alan Simpson
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Author Unknown
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
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