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Quotes About Religion

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
~ Pope Pius IX
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
~ Gouverneur Morris
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
~ Julian Casablancas
The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].
~ Roy Moore
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.
~ Anwar Sadat
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
~ Émile Durkheim
Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
~ Heraclitus
Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
~ H. G. Wells
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
~ Frank Zappa
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
~ Beatrice Webb
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
~ Mark Twain
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
~ Gary Bartz
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ.
~ Mehdi Dibaj
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
~ Voltaire
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
~ Timothy Keller
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
~ Mark Twain
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
~ Dalai Lama
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
~ Wilhelm Stekel
Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.
~ Larissa Ione, Eternal Rider
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre