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Quotes About Religion

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God
~ Amber Tamblyn
Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
~ Robert Frost
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
~ Robert A. Burton
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
~ Austin O'Malley
Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.
~ Rush Limbaugh
No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
~ Albert Einstein
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
~ Albert Pike
Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.
~ Steve Daines
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
~ William Ellery Channing
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
~ Arthur Miller
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
~ Austin Phelps
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.
~ Ayn Rand
I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.
~ Barack Obama
I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.
~ Barack Obama
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.
~ Ben Katchor
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
~ Susan Jacoby
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
~ Thomas Paine
We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
~ Yann Martel
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.
~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis