Quotes About Religion

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

You got your God and so do I.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion