Quotes About Religion

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.