Religion Quotes

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Tom T. Hall

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Aldous Huxley

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

Victor Hugo

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature

Albert Einstein

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Voltaire

Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There are only two kinds of people we can call reasonable: either those who serve God with their whole heart because they know him, or those who search after him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Blaise Pascal

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.

Christopher Hitchens

The priests have so disfigured the simple religion of Jesus that no one who reads the sophistications they have engrafted on it, from the jargon of Plato, of Aristotle

Thomas Jefferson

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

Haniel Long

If humans were inclined to goodness, religion would not be necessary.

Steve Maraboli

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Andrew Greeley

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Aldous Huxley

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

E. O. Wilson

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Robert Shea

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold