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Quotes About Religion

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
~ Banksy
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
~ Iain Banks, The Business
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
~ P.J. O'Rourke
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
~ Washington Gladden
If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.
~ Charlie Trotter
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
~ Albert Einstein
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
~ Mary McCarthy
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
~ Blaise Pascal
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
~ Christopher Hitchens
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
~ Sigmund Freud
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
~ R. D. Laing
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
~ Pierre Corneille
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
~ Richard Rohr
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
~ John Adams
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
~ David Friedrich Strauss
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
~ Conor Cruise O'Brien
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
~ Thomas Szasz
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
~ Francis James Grimke
No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
~ Jodi Picoult
Every religion there's something foul going on.
~ Ja Rule
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
~ Seth MacFarlane