Quotes About Religion

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.