Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
14 views from Heinrich Heine
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
7 quotes from Herbert Read
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
3 quotes from Johan Huizinga
No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
5 other thoughts from George Whitefield
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
2 thoughts from William Barclay
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
46 sayings from George Santayana
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
4 quotes from Joyce Cary
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
8 views from Matthew Arnold
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
46 quotes from George Santayana
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Wonder is the basis of worship.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.
2 views from Benjamin Whichcote
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
3 sayings from Pierre Beaumarchais
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
30 wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
8 more views from Ernest Holmes
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
3 thoughts from Alfred Russel Wallace
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
10 more thoughts from Charles de Secondat
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
9 thoughts from Walter Savage Landor
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
3 views from Pierre de Coubertin
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
2 more quotes from Johannes Tauler
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
9 other views from Swami Vivekananda
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
23 other wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
24 sayings from Carl Sandburg
I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.
8 quotes from Jane Seymour
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
11 other sayings from Meister Eckhart
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
10 thoughts from Charles de Secondat
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
5 other views from E. Stanley Jones
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
17 quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
37 sayings from Edmund Burke
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
16 other views from Alan Watts
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
5 wisdom & wit from Douglas William Jerrold
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
24 wisdom & wit from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
4 views from Minna Antrim
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
4 wisdom & wit from Richard Le Gallienne
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
30 views from Charles Caleb Colton
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
4 more quotes from William J. H. Boetcker
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
24 wisdom & wit from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
4 more quotes from Abraham Joshua Heschel
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
9 wisdom & wit from Swami Vivekananda
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
31 more views from Thomas Paine
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
31 other wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
31 wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
10 more sayings from Charles Lamb
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
7 views from Galileo Galilei
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
4 views from James A. Michener
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
5 wisdom & wit from Charles Eastman
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
31 thoughts from Thomas Paine
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
10 sayings from Ramakrishna
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 other thoughts from Erma Bombeck
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
31 other thoughts from Thomas Paine
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
7 wisdom & wit from Jeremy Bentham
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
7 thoughts from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
Religion is all bunk.
23 other quotes from Thomas A. Edison
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
29 other quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
5 views from Charles Eastman
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
7 more sayings from Galileo Galilei
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
45 views from John Ruskin
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
5 more quotes from Charles Eastman
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
31 thoughts from Thomas Paine
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
16 more wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
3 wisdom & wit from Robert Shea
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
45 more quotes from John Ruskin
Toleration is the best religion.
73 more views from Victor Hugo
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
47 more sayings from Abraham Lincoln
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
After all, is football a game or a religion?
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
2 other quotes from Toni Cade Bambara
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
2 sayings from Alfred de Vigny
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
18 more views from Joseph Campbell
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
3 thoughts from Maimonides
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
105 other views from Albert Einstein
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
5 other thoughts from William Jennings Bryan
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
27 wisdom & wit from James Madison
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
6 quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
8 views from Malcolm Muggeridge
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
23 other quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
10 views from Booker T. Washington
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
16 more quotes from David Hume
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
6 sayings from B. R. Ambedkar
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
70 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
17 other wisdom & wit from John Burroughs
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
6 more wisdom & wit from Philip James Bailey
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
20 sayings from Anatole France
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
13 more wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
8 more quotes from Hosea Ballou
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
14 more thoughts from Clarence Darrow
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
7 thoughts from Arnold J. Toynbee
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
17 wisdom & wit from John Burroughs
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
7 quotes from James Anthony Froude
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
23 more sayings from E. W. Howe
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
53 wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
22 other quotes from Robert Browning
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
15 other quotes from Orson Welles
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
10 wisdom & wit from Patrick Henry
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
9 other quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
2 other quotes from Edmond de Goncourt
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
6 quotes from Karl Barth
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
3 wisdom & wit from Paul Tournier
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
3 quotes from Harvey Milk
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
53 other thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
5 quotes from Theodore White
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
22 more quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
26 other thoughts from Sigmund Freud
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
6 views from Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
9 views from Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
21 more quotes from Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.
21 more quotes from Karl Marx
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
6 thoughts from Karl Barth
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
5 sayings from Dennis Potter
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
4 other wisdom & wit from Gregory Bateson
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
14 quotes from Joseph Joubert
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
33 more views from Thomas Huxley
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
21 more wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
10 more quotes from Patrick Henry
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
3 quotes from Henry Cabot Lodge
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
53 more thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
20 other quotes from Christopher Lasch
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
31 other sayings from Helen Keller
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
57 more views from Blaise Pascal
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
5 quotes from Alexis Carrel
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
14 views from Thomas Hardy
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
20 views from Christopher Lasch
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
15 more sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
10 more quotes from William Ralph Inge
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
3 wisdom & wit from George A. Smith
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
7 other views from Sydney Smith
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
10 views from John D. Rockefeller
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
8 quotes from Benito Mussolini
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
8 other wisdom & wit from Mary Baker Eddy
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
14 other quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
17 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
8 quotes from Nathaniel Hawthorne
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
3 quotes from Edward Bond
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
45 sayings from Aldous Huxley
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
5 quotes from Oswald Chambers
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
8 quotes from Jeremy Taylor
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
2 quotes from Hans Urs von Balthasar
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
11 more quotes from Lucille Ball
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
4 sayings from Felix Adler
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
4 thoughts from Guy de Maupassant
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
2 views from Sri Aurobindo
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
15 views from Walter Scott
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
7 quotes from Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
7 other wisdom & wit from Jorge Luis Borges
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
19 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
60 more wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
7 thoughts from Swami Sivananda
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
23 more wisdom & wit from T. S. Eliot
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
6 quotes from O. Henry
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
7 more sayings from Swami Sivananda
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
5 more quotes from Frances Wright
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
3 sayings from Orson Pratt
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
9 more thoughts from Elizabeth I
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
100 more thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
16 other quotes from Paul Valery
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
16 quotes from Wallace Stevens
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
19 quotes from John Keats
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
2 views from Annie Besant
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
100 more views from Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
3 quotes from Henri Bergson
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
8 wisdom & wit from Frank Herbert
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
8 more sayings from Ezra Pound
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
7 quotes from Mary Astell
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
14 views from Wendell Phillips
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
10 quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
18 thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
14 other sayings from Muhammad Iqbal
Music is my religion.
22 more quotes from Jimi Hendrix
My religion lies in my composition.
3 other quotes from John Philip Sousa
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
78 other thoughts from Voltaire
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
32 quotes from William Blake
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
3 quotes from Allen Tate
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
10 sayings from Billy Sunday
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
3 sayings from Cyril Cusack
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
14 more sayings from Laurence Sterne
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
9 quotes from Carl Sagan
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
32 other quotes from William Blake
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
9 more quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
78 other quotes from Voltaire
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
32 views from Martin Luther
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
19 other views from Jonathan Swift
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
78 more quotes from Voltaire