Religion Quotes

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Elbert Hubbard

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

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

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

England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.

Voltaire

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 Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

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

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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

Robert Millikan

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon

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.

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