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Quotes About Religion

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
~ Lord Acton
Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.
~ Richard Dawkins
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
~ Blaise Pascal
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
~ Oscar Wilde
Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
~ Henry Norris Russell
I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.
~ Bill Maher
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.
~ R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
~ Mandy Moore
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
~ Ellen G. White
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.
~ David Cross
I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.
~ Sigmund Freud
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
~ Beatrice Webb
Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.
~ Rajneesh
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
~ Pauline Kael
My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?
~ Tom Robbins
The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.
~ John Adams
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
All true religion must stand on true morality.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.
~ Henry Makow