Quotes About Religion

Evolution is faith, a religion.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Where there is fear there is no religion.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.