I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaReligion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin FarrerIt 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 RushYouth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
Andre MalrauxFor man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas HoodThe 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 LippmannJust 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 GatesThe Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery BrundageMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose BierceReligion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceReligion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more.
John BledsoeI won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl SandburgNothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeNothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
AlainThe search for religion is the starting point of thought
Xu ZhimoMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas PaineCatholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna CicconeI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard DawkinsEvery 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 CampbellA myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James FeiblemanChristmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart SimpsonThere 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 WilsonIn England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce
Francesco CaraccioloLet your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeWe 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 HumboldtThe first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred AllenAll religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EpictetusThe thing about religion is it seems that everyone has a slightly different conception of what it is and what it might mean to them.
James FrazerDifference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell PhillipsReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsBut to us, probability is the very guide of life (The Analogy of Religion)
Joseph ButlerReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudA 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 PoeWhen 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 HertzbergFor me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinWhen 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 HerbertWe 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 PopperFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesThe equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold ToynbeeI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinAny system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system. (The Age of Reason)
Thomas PaineIt 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 MoodyAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacGenius 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 MoreThe Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Joseph JoubertA 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 KwasniewskiYou 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 ClarkeThe Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
David HumeIt 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 Gandhi
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