Quotes About Religion

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.