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Quotes About Religion

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
~ John Stuart Mill
Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.
~ Bill Nye
He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.
~ William P. Young
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
~ Sigmund Freud
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
~ George Herbert
In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!
~ Dalai Lama
Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
~ William P. Young
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.
~ Kevin Hearne
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
~ James Madison
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.
~ James Madison
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal
~ Al Goldstein
Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.
~ Christopher Bollen
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
~ Daniel Dennett
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.
~ Rick Warren
I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.
~ James Joyce
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.
~ Gary Bauer
Religion is collective insanity.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
~ Eva Herzigova
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
~ Richard Cecil