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Quotes About Religion

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
~ James G. Frazer
All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.
~ Jill Scott
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
~ John Cleese
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
~ Saint Augustine
It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
~ Thomas Paine
When men make gods, there is no God!
~ Eugene O'Neill
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
~ George Washington
A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.
~ Andy Garcia
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
~ C. S. Lewis
If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'
~ Christopher Hitchens
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.
~ Ernest Gaines
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.
~ Ice Cube
The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."
~ Isaiah
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
~ Pope Francis
Let man be true and every god a liar.
~ Samuel Butler
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
~ Voltaire
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
~ William Shakespeare
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
~ Albert Einstein
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.
~ Alfonso X of Castile
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
~ Cecil B. DeMille
I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.
~ Ronald Reagan
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
~ Sigmund Freud
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.
~ Swami Vivekananda