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Quotes About Religion

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
~ Francis Bacon
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
~ Pope Pius XI
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.
~ Max Lucado
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
~ Lord Byron
If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
~ Alfred Noyes
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
~ George Santayana
Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
~ H. L. Mencken
Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.
~ Timothy Keller
The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.
~ Rumi
With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.
~ Steve Daines
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
~ Henry Van Dyke
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.
~ Frank Delaney
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
~ Stephen Spender
For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.
~ Donna Karan
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.
~ Joseph Leon Blau
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
~ Aldous Huxley
Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.
~ Voltaire
It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
~ Burt Prelutsky
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.
~ Bill Maher
the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.
~ Florence L. Barclay
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
~ Ray Bradbury