Religion Quotes

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Religion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich Hebbel

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
Napoleon Bonaparte

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert Runcie

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism 'religion caricatured,' which is a full definition in a word.
James Parton

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg

The search for religion is the starting point of thought
Xu Zhimo

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
Andy Griffith

The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F Forbes

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. [Then again you could say its due to medical and scientific improvement, and speak the truth]
Cyril Clarke

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H White

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery Brundage

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Oates

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
Karl Popper

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco

His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas Carlyle

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.
Arthur Hertzberg

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin Farrer

The first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo Black

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David Beckham

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
Alain

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of Chesterfield

Every 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 Campbell

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
Hannah More

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
Maria Edgeworth

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole France

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Mike Schmidt

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce
Francesco Caracciolo

Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
Giuseppe Mazzini

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas Hood

Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
Samuel Daniel

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
John Keats

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

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 enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul Bert

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna Ciccone

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
August Bebel

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul Tillich



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