All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EpictetusPolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteIt is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiChristmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart SimpsonReligion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceThe equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold ToynbeeIt is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:
1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
Benjamin RushBy our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Samuel ChaseOperationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. (Religion without Revelation, 1957)
Sir Julian HuxleyAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacDifference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell PhillipsTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeModern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul BertEvery religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph CampbellThe 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
Walter J LippmannAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinA strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan PoeI am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S EliotHis religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas CarlyleFormerly, 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 SzaszI'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Montgomery BurnsMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose BierceA glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
John SeldenAdversity reminds men of religion
LivyA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
AristotleScience can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul IIWe cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.
Karl Wilhelm Von HumboldtI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinThe search for religion is the starting point of thought
Xu ZhimoA cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom WolfeThe sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F ForbesI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauReligion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin Farrer'Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.'
Karl MarxBut to us, probability is the very guide of life (The Analogy of Religion)
Joseph ButlerIt may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl BuckAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert EinsteinThe Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas PaineA union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo BlackWe know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T S EliotReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceSex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
Malcolm MuggeridgeNothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
AlainReligion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William JerroldThere's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael MooreThe mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. [On the continued appeal of religion]
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