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Quotes About Religion

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
~ Rene Dubos
Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.
~ Charles Kimball
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.
~ Janet Parshall
My religion teaches me to love all equally.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
~ Reginald Horace Blyth
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.
~ Hillary Clinton
Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
~ Brandon Bays
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
~ Mario Bunge
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
~ James Larkin
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
~ Matt Groening
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
~ Jennifer Aniston
There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.
~ Katharine Hayhoe
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
~ Walter Savage Landor
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
~ Richard B. Garnett
Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
~ Israel Zangwill