We have collected the best Religion Quotes by famous authors including Daniel Dennett, Anita Diament, Huston Smith, Swami Vivekananda, Michelle Phan and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
I don’t think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn’t already know about religion. It has long been obvious – even to the deeply religious – that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
Daniel Dennett
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Swami Vivekananda
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that’s beautiful. But I also believe if religion’s not your thing, that’s fine, too, just so long as you’re a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
Michelle Phan
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Saint Ambrose
I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.
Amin Maalouf
Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.
Jack Horner
No matter your religion or what your political views are, I think there’s one thing we can all agree on. Most human beings are not meant to be alone. I know I’m not.
Jason Collins
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Epictetus
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Muhammad Iqbal
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
Natalie Portman
In the Orthodox religion, you don’t draw the human figure. It’s against the rules.
Paul Rand
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell
It’s easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers ‘A Love Supreme,’ whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
Tucker Carlson
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
John Galsworthy
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
Adoniram Judson
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.
Roberto Baggio
Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.
Lee Hsien Loong
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won’t be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.
Theodore Zeldin
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy Graham
What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham Maslow
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
I’m not a religious person, and I’m not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
Ian MacKaye
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
Pat Buckley
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Paul Tournier
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
Iliza Shlesinger
Religion has nothing to do with God. It’s a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it’s religion that produces God, not the other way round.
Umberto Eco
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
Erwin McManus
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Dayananda Saraswati
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong – and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.
Bill Maher
Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of ‘daan’ or ‘giving’ is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.
Shiv Nadar
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
Stephen Harper
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.
Bill Klem
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
Christopher Dawson
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
Michael Caine
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Abdolkarim Soroush
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men’s souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
Emanuel Swedenborg
I’d be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don’t see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there’s a God.
Neil Turok
I’m married to the street; I ain’t gonna switch over. I ain’t gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God – God is for the thugs too – but the streets are in the most trouble. So I’mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That’s what I’m mainly about.
Trick Daddy
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Swami Sivananda
If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.
Richard Rohr
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.
Elton John
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Isaac Newton
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.
Kevin Gates
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Mary Douglas
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He’s never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.
Raymond Moody
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Georges Bizet
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James Madison
I didn’t want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
Julian Schnabel
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
Abdullah II of Jordan
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can’t deal with them.
Stewart Udall
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
I’m looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don’t matter to me. I want someone who’s qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
Edward Brooke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, ‘Dad, why don’t you wear that at work?’ And he said, ‘Your religion should be in your actions.’ He set a great, great example.
Hugh Jackman
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
Pope Francis
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
B. R. Ambedkar
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson Welles
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
In 1986, Pakistan got the blasphemy law. So, while we had just two cases of blasphemy before that year, now we have thousands. It shows that one should be careful while bringing religion into legislation, because the law itself can become an instrument of persecution.
Asma Jahangir
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Kerry Thornley
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity.
Jackie Mason
If I wouldn’t offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
Tim Conway
I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
Christopher Hitchens
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
Sufjan Stevens
I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
Lemmy
I’ve never had any religion. I’d prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn’t make myself believe.
David Gilmour
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
Arlen Specter
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Alexander Chase
I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.
Angie Stone
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Inge
In my opinion, love is not about gender, it’s not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries.
Bill Kaulitz
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Ellen G. White
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark Twain
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Karen Armstrong
Freedom of speech wasn’t won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
David Starkey
I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Narendra Modi
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Religion doesn’t make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
Reza Aslan
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
Joseph de Maistre
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.
Pedro Sanchez
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
Azar Nafisi
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.
Marine Le Pen
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
Steve Hackett
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.
Rodrigo Duterte
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Clive Bell
I’m fascinated by religion, but I’m not particularly religious.
Mika
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that’s all you can do in life.
Scott Eastwood
There’s something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn’t know… why the sun always rose over the mountains.
Alain de Botton
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
Dwight L. Moody
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Jeanne Shaheen
We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.
Mohammad bin Salman
I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra Modi
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
Ellen G. White
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
James K. Polk
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
Grover Norquist
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Moses Mendelssohn
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: ‘This is me, it has to be me.’ And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
Ricky Martin
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
John Keats
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Japanese don’t have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don’t say you eat it: you say, ‘I am receiving it.’ Kind of like you are thanking the food.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
There’s no religion but sex and music.
Sting
Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached!
Gad Saad
I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Will Smith
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
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
Marilyn Manson
When I think about America, I think about freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion. It’s a peaceful country.
Enes Kanter
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
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don’t practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life.
Laila Rouass
For the record, I don’t worship the devil. I just hate religion.
Tyler, The Creator
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
William O. Douglas
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Dalai Lama
I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they’ll say, ‘Oh that’s dumb, you believe in whatever,’ but I think everybody believes in something.
Andy Biersack
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
Louis Finkelstein
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
Emile Durkheim
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
Charles Grodin
Just as ‘Islam’ literally means ‘peace,’ none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.
Sushma Swaraj
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Naguib Mahfouz
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn’t want any part of it. That turned me off it.
Kristian Nairn
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I think religion is a mistake – I’m exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.
Bjork
Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.
Henry IV
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.
Robert Winston
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Montesquieu
If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing.’
Tom Cruise
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
Michael Berryman
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson
We don’t dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can’t win.
Lzzy Hale
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
Needless to say, oftentimes a ‘religion’ is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.
Steven Crowder
We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.
John Henrik Clarke
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
Steve Earle
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.
Martin Scorsese
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
Brigham Young
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that’s inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
Opal Tometi
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
B. R. Ambedkar
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don’t understand it.
Kirk Douglas
I have always respected everyone’s religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
Hazel Scott
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind’s search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Myles Munroe
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn’t discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.
Rajinikanth
You won’t see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Lauren Southern
The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.
Aleister Black
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it’s not a perfect correlation, and it doesn’t have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.
Steven Pinker
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you’d resign in protest.
Bill Maher
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
Julian Casablancas
I’m not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the church.
Shaun Cassidy
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion.
Midge Ure
Religion is extremely important in this democracy – so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Mario Cuomo
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
Sri Aurobindo
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold J. Toynbee
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
Mary Douglas
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
Tony Wilson
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
Mary Wortley Montagu
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we’ve really gone very far in developing this country.
Najib Razak
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Naguib Mahfouz
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Lafcadio Hearn
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
David Lynch
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
Voltaire
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
When Jews left Judaism, they didn’t stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
Dennis Prager
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. ‘Natural law,’ we say from the field of science. ‘Will of God,’ we say from the field of religion. It’s the same thing.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
My life was changed in one breath from God.
Donna Summer
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
I’m not really into religion.
Harry Dean Stanton
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Robert Owen
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn’t the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore
We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
Logan Browning
I don’t feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
Imelda Staunton
You don’t have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.
Jim Starlin
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammad Iqbal
One person’s religion is another person’s cult.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
Josephine Baker
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
Kelly Slater
Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.
Nadine Labaki
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello
Religion is there to say, ‘Hey, you don’t have to worry – there’s an afterlife.’
Peter Greenaway
I love religion.
Jessica Simpson
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it’s a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that’s our religion, that’s our football.
Taylor Kitsch
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
Sheikh Hasina
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
B. R. Ambedkar
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma Gandhi
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
Daniel Radcliffe
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.
Nigel Lawson
Religion works. I know there’s comfort there, a crash pad. It’s something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it’s comforting.
Brad Pitt
The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity – you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it’s based in the same thought, it’s based in the same outcome, you know.
Goldie Hawn
I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
Len G. Murray
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it… The effect that it has had on people’s minds.
Chino Moreno
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
Hussein of Jordan
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Gene Robinson
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra Modi
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Hall Caine
When push comes to shove, it ain’t the science that’s going to lift you up – it’s the belief, the spiritual side of life, that’s going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
Kirstie Alley
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
Billy Graham
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 and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
Ben Shapiro
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Jeremy Taylor
I have said it previously and saying it again… my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.
Yogi Adityanath
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Pope Francis
I’m a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don’t do because I feel that it’s going to create a bad vibe. I don’t do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
A. R. Rahman
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
Jesse Ventura
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that’s a weird thing that I’m struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
Patton Oswalt
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
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
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is just mind control.
George Carlin
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
Kofi Annan
I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Tom T. Hall
There doesn’t seem to be a religion in ‘Game of Thrones’ that’s totally peaceful… we haven’t seen any Buddhists.
Carice van Houten
I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.
Alice Walker
I feel like ‘Leftovers’ is dealing with subject matter that’s kind of taboo when you’re talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.
Regina King
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That’s not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It’s anything but that.
Sam Harris
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Eldridge Cleaver
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil Gibran
As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
Alan Lightman
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Elizabeth I
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
Gabriel Iglesias
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
Wole Soyinka
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Jerry Falwell
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
Brian Greene
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion, that’s art, that’s life.
Phil Ochs
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
Sri Aurobindo
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
Clarence Darrow
To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.
Mona Eltahawy
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Alexis Carrel
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
Tawakkol Karman
That’s what I love about Australia: we can do things the way we want to do them, because that’s the way our country is – no matter what culture you come from, you can come to Australia and practise your religion, you can practise your beliefs, and you shouldn’t be judged for it.
Adam Goodes
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
Mary Daly
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
B. R. Ambedkar
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
Sepp Blatter
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
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Pope Benedict XVI
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
Pauline Phillips
Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it’s culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
Aasif Mandvi
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
The doctor didn’t want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That’s religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn’t want to give those up.
Tom Brokaw
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence
The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn’t try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
Leon Russell
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
Asma Jahangir
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
Pauline Hanson
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
Vaclav Klaus
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
Camille Paglia
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it’s so little known about it which surprised me.
Moustapha Akkad
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they’d like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
Reza Aslan
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley
I was born and raised Catholic, so it’s in my blood. I don’t go to church… I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
Tom Araya
The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It’s a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life… it’s a religion. It’s not just something you put on a record.
KRS-One
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Daniel Morgan
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion – others pray in church. It’s a banality, but you don’t possess art, it possesses you. It’s like falling in love.
Francois Pinault
I don’t see why we should alienate anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ethnicity.
Finn Balor
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth – about others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always.
Sadio Mane
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
Vinod Khosla
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don’t go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.
Shashi Tharoor
From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.
Russell Crowe
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph.
Nostradamus
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Walter Koenig
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
Frank McCourt
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert Runcie
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Orson Pratt
Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
Voltaire
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
Paul P. Harris
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
Elie Wiesel
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn’t supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Michael Newdow
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Dalai Lama
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out – or worse.
Robert Shea
Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.
Ariel Sharon
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
Thomas Jefferson
I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.
Bill Nye
Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ The spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’
Tommy Chong
Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
Hamza Yusuf
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
For me sport was a religion… with religious sentiment.
Pierre de Coubertin
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world – including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
Ellen Willis
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
Conor Oberst
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy Graham
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan
The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
Condoleezza Rice
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.
John Keats
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham Lincoln
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Richard Dawkins
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Joseph Lancaster
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.’
Prince
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Montesquieu
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Richard John Neuhaus
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Lucretius
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
Liam Neeson
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys’ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Keanu Reeves
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Sam Harris
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
Jay-Z
I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don’t have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.
Tom Araya
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.
Ben Shapiro
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian
I’m fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it’s so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
John Hurt
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mary Garden
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.
Emile Durkheim
I don’t practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy
No matter where you’re from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else – what is it that can bring us together as people? It is, what we call in Hawaii, aloha… sincere, deep love and respect for other people as children of God.
Tulsi Gabbard
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith
When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. If you look at any actor’s fan base in India, you will find that they are from different regions.
Ajith Kumar
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna
For me, what’s the old expression, ‘Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,’ that’s really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.
Mike Rowe
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Radhanath Swami
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Frank Sinatra
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
Zhang Zhidong
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
James Larkin
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher
I’m in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God’s terms. My God isn’t the God of George Bush.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don’t know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
B. F. Skinner
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Peter Ustinov
I wasn’t raised a Catholic, but Yolanthe was, and I wanted to get more involved in her religion.
Wesley Sneijder
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
Jeff Miller
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn’t religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.
Mark Kurlansky
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Religion is something we don’t talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
Zach Anner
I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
Mike Tyson
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
Brandon Flowers
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Larry Flynt
I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don’t mix.
Jerry Falwell
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.
Patrick Wilson
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven’t evolved to the point where we’re one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Josh Gad
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
Sean Combs
I’m a Christian, but I don’t believe in religion or anything like that.
Vanilla Ice
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Burton
My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.
Charles Barkley
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion comes from the word ‘re’ or again and ‘ligare’ meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.
Alex Grey
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Eckhart Tolle
We’re so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, ‘under God indivisible,’ but there’s no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn’t be able to go through a day – but that’s my own experience.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what’s new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
Gordon Brown
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
Sojourner Truth
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
My religion is inclusivity.
Haaz Sleiman
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
William Wallace
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It’s a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
Donatella Versace
I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern
A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you’d be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Octavia E. Butler
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.
Michael J. Knowles
I don’t necessarily believe in organized religion.
Will Smith
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates
I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
Devin Townsend
It’s not so much religion per se, it’s false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I’m really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
Sam Harris
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo Black
We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.
Nikki Haley
I think it’s been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
P. J. O’Rourke
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Noah Webster
If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
Pope Francis
If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Dennis Prager
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
Alain de Botton
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Billy Graham
It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
Lance Bass
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.
Ray Bradbury
We are against politics of religion and caste.
Atishi
Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.
Mehdi Hasan
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse – news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Neil Postman
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I’m kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that’s its own form of religion, and it’s not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
Win Butler
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
Ram Dass
I think India is very passionate about films. It’s almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are – are really held in great esteem. Not that we’re complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
Abhishek Bachchan
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
Alfred Russel Wallace
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Duke of Wellington
My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything.
Isabelle Huppert
I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, ‘We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.’
Cher
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo Coelho
I think religion played a huge part in Bush’s re-election.
Tracy Chapman
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Hu Shih
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
Horace Walpole
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
Garrison Keillor
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert Camus
Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
Bear Grylls
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
Dave Barry
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Thomas Erskine
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.
Sterling K. Brown
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
Erma Bombeck
Though I believe in God, I don’t believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don’t want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science… I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.
Preston Sturges
I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.
Ari Shaffir
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing
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 you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
Harvey Fierstein
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
Andrew Greeley
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin
If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
Richard Dawkins
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Richard Dawkins
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.
Antonio Conte
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
Ellen G. White
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Gouverneur Morris
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
Alvin Toffler
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
Benjamin Wittes
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors – the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
Chief Seattle
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Garry Marshall
I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It’s always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.
Tim Kennedy
We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. Where justice is truly real for all of us, regardless of race, class, gender, orientation, or religion. I fully believe we can.
Jamaal Bowman
I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.
Monica Bellucci
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
I know Marco Rubio very well. He’s a friend of mine. He’s a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and – you know, for whom religion is very important.
Ana Navarro
I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.
Art Malik
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
Louie Schwartzberg
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion – not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran’s theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.
Elliott Abrams
Spirituality in Washington can be more of a – I don’t want to say it – but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
Mark Leibovich
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
William S. Burroughs
I’m not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism’s ‘social naturalism’ (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion’s supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will).
Mark Fisher
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Beatrice Webb
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
I have values. But morals are Christian. There’s no religion here. Values. Don’t hurt when you don’t need to, but don’t let anybody step over that line – it’s an invisible line, but it’s respect for somebody’s space.
John Lydon
To me, film is a religion. I don’t expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.
Kevin Brownlow
Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.
Fatema Mernissi
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don’t.
Richard Dawkins
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
Bill Gates
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
Chesty Puller
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal
Those nations that say it’s a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they’re doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.
Wole Soyinka
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
David Mamet
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Dalai Lama
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d’Holbach
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama’s school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich Heine
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts
No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.
Tom Tancredo
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
Leon Bourgeois
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Samuel Chase
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I just don’t like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.
Brad Pitt
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Richard Dawkins
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it’s too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
Vera Farmiga
All too often, the word ‘religion’ has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.
Kenneth R. Miller
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
Richard Dawkins
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
I don’t have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
Karen Civil
This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Avicenna
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Herbert Read
It’s not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It’s that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
Godfrey Reggio
I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
Dave Chappelle
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
Ezra Taft Benson
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don’t think that that’s necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
Jason Isbell
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Billy Sunday
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have faith, but I’m not the biggest fan of organised religion. There’s a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.
Ncuti Gatwa
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude Stein
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
Philip Schaff
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Thomas Paine
I’m not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
Natascha McElhone
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams
One man’s cult is another man’s religion.
Annie Parisse
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
William Barclay
Any time scientists disagree, it’s because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I’m right, or you’re right, or we’re both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
Alija Izetbegovic
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir
U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren’t shy about it – it’s nice there are people who’ve come before that were open about it.
Brandon Flowers
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant
I don’t do politics, I don’t do religion, I don’t do ethnic jokes.
Bill Engvall
While in some countries there’s a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India – in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
Amish Tripathi
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond Tutu
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
I strongly believe that love as an emotion is sufficient for a girl and a boy to be together, and these societal norms like caste, creed or religion are all man-made.
Sara Khan
I’m a believer. I don’t go to church. I don’t belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn’t write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Nick Cave
People don’t get angry at you for shock value. People get angry at you when you affect something that is at their core, whether it be guns or religion or whatever. Their belief system.
Jim Jefferies
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not decide that based on caste, religion or gender.
Dutee Chand
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
Dwight L. Moody
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections.
Eric Kripke
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick the Great
I don’t care what the religion is called; as far as I’m concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
Charley Pride
Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
Charles Baudelaire
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
Azar Nafisi
My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.
Geert Wilders
For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.
Rodrigo Duterte
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Margaret Atwood
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack Obama
For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
Louis Finkelstein
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald Reagan
