Religion Quotes

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Karen Armstrong

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.

Sydney Smith

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sydney Smith

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

Benjamin Franklin

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

George Gurdjieff

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Terry Pratchett

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

The devil made me do it I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do not live their lives for them.

Neil Gaiman

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time...but I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night...'strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?

Neil Gaiman

We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despisethe spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywherehonor the thoughtful man.

Victor Hugo

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Herbert Read

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Jewel