Religion Quotes - page 2

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. (Charles Lamb)
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. View quote
Francis Bacon
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Bill Gates
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. View quote
Voltaire
God has no religion. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. View quote
John Updike
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. (John Updike)
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. View quote
Thomas Paine
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. View quote
William Hazlitt
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. View quote
Maxim Gorky
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? View quote
Montesquieu
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. View quote
Montesquieu
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
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. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
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)
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. View quote
Margaret Mead
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. View quote
Ambrose Bierce