Religion Quotes

Above all, India is the land of religion.

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Immerse your soul in love.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

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

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.