Quotes About Religion

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.