Quotes About Religion

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Vision is the end of religion.

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

Religion is the opium of the people.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven't done.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.

Religious politics is the bent of those who push "The Myth of the Christian Nation" or "Muslim Supremicism" everywhere! ~ © gfp '42™

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love.

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

God doesn't send atheists to Hell -- there's no room with all the Christians down there.

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.