Quotes About Religion

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

Religion is insanity by consensus.