Religion Quotes

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

Mark Twain

Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.

Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)

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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Elbert Hubbard

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H. L. Mencken

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

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)

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Mohammed Negui

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

William Hiram Foulkes

Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Muhammed Ali, in a television interview

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

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Charles Krauthamme

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

Archbishop William Temple, 1955

Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend