Religion Quotes

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Henrik Ibsen, letter to Georg Br

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Tom Baker

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Jesus Christ

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Dave Davies

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Charlie Shedd

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

John Ruskin

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Paul Tournier

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Bono

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough

You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem

Rudyard Kipling, Watches of the

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a they as opposed to a we can be identified at all.

Richard Dawkins, The Devil's Cha

We need a new religion.

Lauren Hutton

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

James Thomson

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Swami Sivananda

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

Paul Harris

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

James Anthony Froude