Quotes About Religion

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.