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Quotes About Religion

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
~ Oswald Chambers
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
~ W. H. Auden
Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.
~ Brent Stirton
Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.
~ Charles Chilton Moore
How many evils have flowed from religion.
~ Lucretius
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.
~ David Brewster
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.
~ Thomas Paine
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
~ Paul Winchell
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
~ George Santayana
I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.
~ Taslima Nasrin
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Religion without joy-it is no religion.
~ Theodore Parker
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.
~ Tony Evans
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
~ Joseph Campbell
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
~ Stephen King, Joyland
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
~ Mark Twain, On Religion
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
the church should just stay out of people's pants.
~ Alex Sanchez, The God Box
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
~ Noam Chomsky
I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -
~ Margaret Cho