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Quotes About Religion

Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
~ Joyce Meyer
If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Christianity is such a silly religion.
~ Gore Vidal
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.
~ Trent Reznor
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
~ Ricky Gervais
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.
~ George V. Higgins
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
~ Andrew Greeley
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
~ Swami Vivekananda
No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
~ Rodney Stark
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
~ Ben Jonson
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
~ Mike Tyson
I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
~ Henny Youngman
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
~ Jose Saramago
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia