Religion Quotes - page 5

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)
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra. View quote
Daniel Dennett
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion. View quote
Eva Herzigova
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. View quote
Christopher Lasch
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. View quote
Dalai Lama
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. View quote
John Updike
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. (Daniel Webster)
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way. View quote
Karl Barth
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. View quote
Israel Zangwill
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. View quote
Edmond de Goncourt
Religion ... is a mans total reaction upon life. View quote
William James
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. View quote
Thomas Paine
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. View quote
Thomas Paine
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. (Blaise Pascal)
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. View quote
Felix Adler
Religion is just mind control. View quote
George Carlin
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. View quote
Cicero