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Quotes About Religion

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.
~ David Milne
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
~ Joyce Meyer
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Without God all things are permitted.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
~ Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
~ Ben Carson
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
~ Brian Eno
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
~ Denise Mina
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
~ Preston Manning
The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.
~ Robert H. Knight
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
~ John Keats
If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?
~ William Murchison
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
~ Rashid al-Ghannushi
Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.
~ George Carlin
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
~ Lucy Larcom
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
~ Benjamin Franklin
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.
~ Cat Stevens
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.
~ Thomas Jefferson