Religion Quotes

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Marquis de Sade

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Mary Astell

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Sri Aurobindo

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.

Edward Norman

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

George Byron

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Bill Keller

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Lionel Richie

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Thomas Hobbes

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Noah Webster

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

David Hume

I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Charley Pride

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

Tom Perrotta

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Pat Boone

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.

Albert Einstein

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

Christopher Hitchens

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.

Steve Maraboli