Religion Quotes

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

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

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Mark Twain

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

Jonathan Swift

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Elbert Hubbard

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

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

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 Lama

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

Kahlil Gibran

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

B. J. Gupta