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Quotes About Religion

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
~ Adam Savage
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
~ Wesley Pruden
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
~ Gregory S. Paul
Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.
~ Graham Kendall
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
~ Anne Frank
Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.
~ Timothy Freke
When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.
~ John C. Danforth
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
~ Sigmund Freud
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
~ Mary Astell
Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart.
~ Michael Tierra
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
~ Thomas Paine
Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.
~ Dennis Prager
Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.
~ Stephen Batchelor
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
~ Alfredo Jaar
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.
~ Helen Foster Snow
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
~ Haniel Long
The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
~ Annie Laurie Gaylor
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
~ Rosanne Cash
I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
~ Charley Pride
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
~ Octavio Paz