Religion Quotes

All true religion must stand on true morality.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.

I am for religion, against religions.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

It is true that every artist has his own religion.

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.