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Quotes About Religion

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.
~ Ronald Knox
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.
~ Emma Goldman
Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.
~ George W Truett
All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.
~ John Hume
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
~ Forrest Church
I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.
~ Reggie McNeal
Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
~ Hemant Mehta
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
~ Erwin McManus
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
~ Thomas Paine
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
~ George Washington
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
~ Tony Wilson
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.
~ Ibn Warraq
I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.
~ Sarah Silverman
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
~ Jose Antonio Carrillo
Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.
~ John Stott
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
~ Paul Tillich
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
~ William James
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
~ Aneurin Bevan
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
~ Voltaire
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
~ Josephus
I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.
~ Edith Stein
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.
~ Massimo Vignelli