Religion Quotes

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

George Sand

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Yann Martel

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Robert G. Ingersoll

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Herbert Read

I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually true.... There may be people who wish to live their lives under cradle-to-grave divine supervision, a permanent surveillance and monitoring. But I cannot imagine anything more horrible or grotesque.

Christopher Hitchens

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

Danny Masterson

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Orson Scott Card

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Huston Smith

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

Roy Moore

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Simon Callow

If there is a God, he'll have to beg my forgiveness.

Anonymous

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Ray Bradbury

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

Aldous Huxley

Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the godof the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the endand wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?

C.S. Lewis

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men

Voltaire

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Erykah Badu

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius