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Quotes About Religion

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
~ Saxby Chambliss
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
~ Francis Bacon
Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.
~ Pope Francis
If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
~ Thomas Jefferson
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
~ John Adams
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
~ Cyril Cusack
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
~ Will Rogers
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.
~ Thomas Paine
Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.
~ Dylan Moran
Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.
~ Asghar Ali Engineer
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
~ George Crabbe
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
~ Jared Diamond
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
~ John Ruskin
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
~ Isaac Newton
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
~ Max Muller
Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.
~ Sylvia Earle
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
~ William Robertson Smith
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
~ Moses Mendelssohn
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
~ Samuel Johnson
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
~ John Cale
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater