Religion Quotes

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

We don't do that kind of thing. We don't create registries based on religion.

The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!

Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!

If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

God is religion; religion is God! There is no need ever for holy books, for holy rules or for so called holy envoys! God is religion; religion is God!

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!

I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence!

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

If you are not the member of any religion, it means that you are the member of truth!

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy!

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!