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 HertzbergI care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
Abraham LincolnWe peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan SamaranchReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsReligion'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 MooreReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of ChesterfieldFor man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas HoodReligion 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 GriffithHis Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.
Kofi AnnanA union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo BlackI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinEach 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 SantayanaFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganThink of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl SaganI don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Mike SchmidtThe sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F ForbesReligion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank HerbertEvery 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 CampbellSex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
Malcolm MuggeridgeThere 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 WilsonHow many evils has religion caused!
LucretiusChristmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart SimpsonIn the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert RuncieAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacThe search for religion is the starting point of thought
Xu ZhimoScience can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul IIDifference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell PhillipsOperationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. (Religion without Revelation, 1957)
Sir Julian HuxleyReligion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert G IngersollWe know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T S EliotA 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 count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher MarloweGenius 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 MoreIt is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight MoodyLet your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonReligion 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 TillichLife 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 MazziniA great Pope - our most outstanding fellow countryman, the Holy Father, a good father to all of us, believers and non-believers, followers of different religions - is no more. [On Pope John Paul II]
Aleksander KwasniewskiThe Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery BrundageWhen law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank HerbertScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinReligion 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 WeinbergNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamWe're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David BeckhamWe 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 HumboldtNothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose BierceThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas PaineJust 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.
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