Quotes About Religion

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)