Religion Quotes - page 3

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. (Ambrose Bierce)
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. View quote
Seneca
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. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. View quote
George Santayana
Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path. View quote
Anton LaVey
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. (David Hume)
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well. View quote
Frank Sinatra
I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. View quote
Carl Sagan
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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! View quote
William Blake
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. View quote
Thomas More
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. View quote
Frances Wright
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)
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. View quote
Clarence Darrow
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. View quote
Scott Adams
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. View quote
Joseph Smith