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Quotes About Religion

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
~ Simone Weil
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
~ Émile Chartier
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
~ Anthony de Mello
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.
~ Lindsey Graham
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
~ H. L. Mencken
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
~ J. C. Ryle
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
~ John Calvin
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.
~ Rajneesh
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
~ Horace Greeley
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
~ Sigmund Freud
I do engineering, not religion.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
~ Albert Einstein
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
~ John B. S. Haldane
The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
~ Donald Barthelme
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
~ Bette Davis
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
~ Penn Jillette
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
~ Albert Einstein
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
~ Carl Sagan
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
~ Victor Hugo