Religion Quotes

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Blaise Pascal

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Deepak Chopra

Allah doesn't need me, I need Allah.

Mike Tyson

He who is near the Church is often far from God.

Proverb

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Paul Tillich

A little, round, fat, oily man of God.

James Thomson

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Samuel Butler

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

Anita Brookner

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Hoagland

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

Source Unknown

Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you will not find Him.

Source Unknown

Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves -- it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Graham Greene

Toleration is the best religion.

Victor Hugo

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Mark Twain

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx