Quotes About Religion

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.