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Quotes About Religion

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.
~ Greg Laurie
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
~ Yogaswami
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
~ Bertrand Russell
Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.
~ Ronald Knox
When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.
~ Robert Spencer
Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
~ Dorothy Day
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
~ Bertrand Russell
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
~ Clive Bell
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.
~ Bob Inglis
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
~ Thomas Paine
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
~ George Will
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.
~ Johnny Cash
I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion
~ Sami Yusuf
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
~ Xu Zhimo
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.
~ Bassam Tibi
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
~ Jack Kornfield
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
~ Kahlil Gibran