Religion Quotes

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

John Paul Stevens

We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

John Cheever

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

EmileAuguste Chartier

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Pete Seeger

Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come from the heavens, it doesn't come from the beyond, it doesn't come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. It shows very well - that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Blaise Pascal

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.

J. Michael Straczynski

You can't apply the rules of a club to people who are not members of that club.

Penn Jillette

I broke with my religion in college.

Anne Rice