Quotes About Religion

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.