Religion Quotes

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

We have fossils... We win!

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.