Quotes About Religion

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Kindness is our religion.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.