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Quotes About Religion

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.
~ Irenaeus of Lyons
If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all
~ Hamza Yusuf
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
~ Adoniram Judson
Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.
~ Cat Stevens
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
~ Pope Pius XI
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
~ Victor Hugo
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.
~ Thubten Yeshe
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
~ Saint Augustine
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
~ John Stott
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
~ Hilaire Belloc
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
~ Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
~ Khalil Gibran
When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God
~ Radhe Maa
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
~ John Adams
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
~ John Calvin
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
~ Alice Walker
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.
~ John Powell
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
~ Amit Ray
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.
~ Lord Acton
'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
~ Brigham Young
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
~ Van Jones